Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 1.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which rose 13.90% or 88.4 points to trade at 724.2 at the close. NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) added 5.62% or 56.90 points to end at 1070.00 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 3.84% or 0.0258 points to 0.6982 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Unipro (MCX:UPRO), which lost 1.69% or 0.0450 points to trade at 2.6200 in late trade. SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) declined 1.58% or 1.50 points to end at 93.60 and Rostelecom (MCX:RTKM) shed 0.78% or 0.54 points to 68.66.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 128 to 73 and 26 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.04% to 25.160.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.31% or 3.80 to $1217.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $68.72 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.16% or 0.12 to trade at $76.25 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.21% to 67.2291, while EUR/RUB rose 0.69% to 78.5555.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.47% at 94.63.