Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Power, Mining and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.61%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which rose 2.43% or 223.0 points to trade at 9413.0 at the close. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) added 1.95% or 0.1450 points to end at 7.5650 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) was up 0.69% or 0.52 points to 75.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which lost 3.48% or 0.0064 points to trade at 0.1774 in late trade. MMK (MCX:MAGN) declined 3.41% or 1.095 points to end at 31.005 and Megion (MCX:MFGS) shed 3.17% or 19.0 points to 580.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 149 to 74 and 16 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.38% to 23.710.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.46% or 5.77 to $1259.37 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.85% or 0.43 to hit $51.10 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.58% or 0.31 to trade at $53.92 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.60% to 56.5824, while EUR/RUB fell 0.08% to 63.560.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 96.88.