Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Mining, Power and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 1.58% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were PIK (MCX:PIKK), which rose 3.89% or 7.30 points to trade at 195.00 at the close. MMK (MCX:MAGN) added 2.61% or 0.366 points to end at 14.388 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 2.51% or 0.0211 points to 0.8610 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which lost 6.45% or 0.0043 points to trade at 0.0629 in late trade. GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) declined 4.66% or 0.0256 points to end at 0.5235 and PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) shed 4.36% or 92.0 points to 2018.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 131 to 61 and 5 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of options, was up 2.56% to 44.550.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was up 0.25% or 3.00 to $1187.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude Oil for delivery in May rose 0.60% or 0.28 to hit $46.85 a barrel, while the May Brent Oil contract rose 0.33% or 0.18 to trade at $55.51 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.02% to 58.693, while EUR/RUB fell 0.05% to 64.139.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.70% at 97.36.