Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 1.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which rose 2.77% or 0.1095 points to trade at 4.0600 at the close. FSK EES (MCX:FEES) added 2.38% or 0.0055 points to end at 0.2365 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 1.85% or 0.0228 points to 1.2548 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which lost 3.42% or 48.50 points to trade at 1370.00 in late trade. Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) declined 3.22% or 14.00 points to end at 421.00 and Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) shed 2.95% or 29.30 points to 964.40.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 103 to 86 and 25 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.04% to 22.810.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.52% or 6.25 to $1197.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.83% or 0.44 to hit $52.73 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.47% or 0.26 to trade at $55.44 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.13% to 59.8977, while EUR/RUB fell 0.07% to 63.991.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 100.51.