Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 1.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p), which rose 4.60% or 19.80 points to trade at 450.00 at the close. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) added 2.93% or 0.1100 points to end at 3.8600 and PIK (MCX:PIKK) was up 2.02% or 6.20 points to 313.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which lost 6.58% or 41.5 points to trade at 589.5 in late trade. Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) declined 6.17% or 12.64 points to end at 192.06 and Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) shed 5.91% or 35.10 points to 558.90.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 135 to 72 and 23 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 2.98% to 36.750.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.27% or 3.70 to $1351.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 1.19% or 0.80 to hit $66.59 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 1.10% or 0.80 to trade at $71.78 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.19% to 62.1293, while EUR/RUB rose 0.52% to 76.8950.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.37% at 89.18.