Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Power, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.46%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which rose 3.23% or 0.705 points to trade at 22.500 at the close. Meanwhile, Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) added 1.65% or 6.00 points to end at 370.00 and ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p) was up 1.41% or 18.0 points to 1296.5 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX), which fell 4.02% or 4.75 points to trade at 113.51 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 3.48% or 0.0370 points to end at 1.0260 and RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) was down 2.97% or 0.0298 points to 0.9732.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 108 to 99 and 23 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.49% to 26.840.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.07% or 0.85 to $1227.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.39% or 0.21 to hit $53.12 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.09% or 0.05 to trade at $55.85 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.17% to 58.3228, while EUR/RUB fell 0.16% to 61.755.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 101.63.