Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Power sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 0.70% to hit a new all time high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were VTB (MCX:VTBR), which rose 5.57% or 0.0029 points to trade at 0.0546 at the close. MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN) added 4.34% or 494.0 points to end at 11874.0 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 3.42% or 0.0289 points to 0.8730 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which lost 6.56% or 337.0 points to trade at 4803.0 in late trade. Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) declined 2.16% or 52.50 points to end at 2383.00 and NMTP (MCX:NMTP) shed 1.55% or 0.1300 points to 8.2700.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 128 to 92 and 16 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.45% to 21.730.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.14% or 1.80 to $1332.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.71% or 0.45 to hit $64.00 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.57% or 0.38 to trade at $67.42 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.08% to 55.9092, while EUR/RUB fell 1.30% to 68.7278.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 89.90.