Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Power, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 1.79%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which rose 9.28% or 0.0162 points to trade at 0.1902 at the close. Meanwhile, Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) added 8.59% or 0.0739 points to end at 0.9340 and Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP) was up 4.07% or 5.00 points to 128.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which fell 2.30% or 17.00 points to trade at 723.00 at the close. DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY) declined 1.41% or 3.20 points to end at 223.80 and Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA) was down 1.12% or 1.70 points to 150.10.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 140 to 72 and 15 ended unchanged.
Shares in Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA) fell to 52-week lows; down 1.12% or 1.70 to 150.10.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.17% to 23.300.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.00% or 12.95 to $1276.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.79% or 0.39 to hit $49.23 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.57% or 0.30 to trade at $52.14 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.02% to 55.8807, while EUR/RUB rose 0.28% to 60.637.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.63% at 99.03.