Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Power, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 0.28%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which rose 4.10% or 15.4 points to trade at 391.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) added 2.32% or 21.70 points to end at 957.90 and United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) was up 1.51% or 0.400 points to 26.850 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Unipro (MCX:UPRO), which fell 5.54% or 0.1500 points to trade at 2.5600 at the close. Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) declined 5.06% or 30.0 points to end at 562.8 and MMK (MCX:MAGN) was down 4.64% or 2.170 points to 44.555.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 114 to 91 and 23 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 2.47% to 25.250.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.43% or 5.35 to $1246.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 2.14% or 1.10 to hit $50.37 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.14% or 0.69 to trade at $59.59 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.10% to 66.6791, while EUR/RUB rose 0.20% to 75.6225.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.29% at 96.632.