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 MICEX fell 2.43% to hit a new 3-months low.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were PIK (MCX:PIKK), which rose 0.43% or 1.20 points to trade at 279.00 at the close. Meanwhile, NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 0.31% or 2.5 points to end at 801.5 and MVideo (MCX:MVID) was up 0.11% or 0.40 points to 375.40 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR), which fell 6.54% or 0.0616 points to trade at 0.8800 at the close. SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) declined 5.06% or 8.42 points to end at 157.99 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was down 4.94% or 0.0469 points to 0.9021.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 187 to 33 and 13 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 5.47% to 26.220.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.06% or 0.75 to $1256.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.19% or 0.62 to hit $52.86 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.91% or 0.50 to trade at $55.74 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.13% to 57.3228, while EUR/RUB rose 0.05% to 60.731.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 100.91.