Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 0.18%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which rose 2.61% or 12.50 points to trade at 491.50 at the close. Meanwhile, PIK (MCX:PIKK) added 2.53% or 4.60 points to end at 186.70 and PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) was up 2.47% or 69.0 points to 2859.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Pharmstandard JSC (MCX:PHST), which fell 3.83% or 45.0 points to trade at 1130.0 at the close. Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) declined 2.77% or 2.11 points to end at 73.99 and E.ON Russia (MCX:EONR) was down 2.50% or 0.0700 points to 2.7290.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 107 to 102 and 10 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 1.73% to 44.570.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.23% or 2.60 to $1118.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 3.47% or 1.60 to hit $44.45 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 3.62% or 1.79 to trade at $47.81 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 1.05% to 69.175, while EUR/RUB rose 1.12% to 77.233.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.10% at 96.16.