Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Mining, Manufacturing and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY), which rose 2.62% or 2.60 points to trade at 102.00 at the close. Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 2.52% or 1.93 points to end at 78.40 and DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY) was up 2.40% or 7.60 points to 324.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL), which lost 4.51% or 1.760 points to trade at 37.300 in late trade. MMK (MCX:MAGN) declined 1.50% or 0.670 points to end at 43.850 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) shed 1.43% or 1.94 points to 133.31.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 121 to 103 and 18 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 2.13% to 14.880.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.55% or 6.95 to $1278.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.22% or 0.12 to hit $54.02 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.17% or 0.10 to trade at $60.23 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.29% to 57.9025, while EUR/RUB rose 0.06% to 67.3900.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 94.43.