Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.76%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were VTB (MCX:VTBR), which rose 3.76% or 0.0026 points to trade at 0.0710 at the close. Sollers (MCX:SVAV) added 3.37% or 15.0 points to end at 460.0 and Polyus Gold International Ltd (MCX:PGIL) was up 1.95% or 2.80 points to 146.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p), which lost 3.92% or 4890 points to trade at 120010 in late trade. Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA) declined 3.57% or 5.60 points to end at 151.30 and Bashneft ANK ao (MCX:BANE) shed 3.12% or 67.0 points to 2081.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 94 to 85 and 10 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 4.31% to 32.170.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.17% or 2.10 to $1227.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.30% or 0.18 to hit $60.36 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.85% or 0.56 to trade at $66.25 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.72% to 49.116, while EUR/RUB fell 1.60% to 55.807.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.73% at 93.97.