Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Power, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 1.38%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 7.80% or 99.00 points to trade at 1367.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p) added 4.03% or 4.47 points to end at 115.51 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 3.73% or 0.0329 points to 0.9149 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Megion (MCX:MFGS), which fell 1.67% or 10.0 points to trade at 590.0 at the close. NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) declined 0.88% or 6.00 points to end at 679.00 and Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA) was down 0.34% or 0.55 points to 159.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 159 to 53 and 21 ended unchanged.
Shares in Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA) fell to 52-week lows; losing 0.34% or 0.55 to 159.50.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.37% to 24.600.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.12% or 1.50 to $1290.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.81% or 0.43 to hit $52.75 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.68% or 0.38 to trade at $55.51 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.75% to 55.9378, while EUR/RUB fell 0.32% to 59.593.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.45% at 100.04.