Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil and Gas, Telecom and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the RTSI fell 1.83%, while the MICEX index declined 2.04%.
The best performers of the session on the RTSI were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which rose 6.37% or 1.200 points to trade at 20.050 at the close. Meanwhile, Mostotrest (MCX:MSTT) added 3.82% or 2.90 points to end at 78.80 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was up 3.28% or 2.38 points to 74.88 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which fell 5.10% or 18.00 points to trade at 335.00 at the close. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) declined 4.67% or 0.0750 points to end at 1.5300 and Tatneft (pref) (MCX:TATN_p) was down 4.43% or 8.20 points to 176.80.
The top performers on the MICEX were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) which rose 6.37% to 20.050, Mostotrest (MCX:MSTT) which was up 3.82% to settle at 78.80 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) which gained 3.28% to close at 74.88.
The worst performers were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) which was down 5.10% to 335.00 in late trade, NMTP (MCX:NMTP) which lost 4.67% to settle at 1.5300 and Tatneft (pref) (MCX:TATN_p) which was down 4.43% to 176.80 at the close.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 84 to 72 and 6 ended unchanged.
Gold for April delivery was up 0.35% or 4.30 to $1231.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude Oil for delivery in April rose 0.32% or 0.17 to hit $53.84 a barrel, while the April Brent Oil contract rose 0.51% or 0.32 to trade at $61.84 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.34% to 63.134, while EUR/RUB fell 0.36% to 72.041.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.00% at 94.24.