Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.62%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which rose 2.46% or 0.0295 points to trade at 1.2275 at the close. Meanwhile, ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p) added 2.27% or 34.0 points to end at 1530.0 and VTB (MCX:VTBR) was up 2.22% or 0.0017 points to 0.0795 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were E.ON Russia (MCX:EONR), which fell 2.68% or 0.0840 points to trade at 3.0510 at the close. Surgut (MCX:SNGS) declined 2.17% or 0.750 points to end at 33.850 and Rosneft (MCX:ROSN) was down 2.12% or 5.30 points to 244.60.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 96 to 92 and 12 ended unchanged.
Shares in VTB (MCX:VTBR) rose to 3-years highs; gaining 2.22% or 0.0017 to 0.0795.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 2.56% to 33.300.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.20% or 2.40 to $1207.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.23% or 0.14 to hit $59.86 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.48% or 0.32 to trade at $65.69 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.21% to 50.113, while EUR/RUB rose 0.55% to 55.354.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.24% at 96.48.