Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Manufacturing sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 0.05%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL), which rose 4.31% or 185.0 points to trade at 4480.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) added 1.52% or 10 points to end at 700 and Unipro (MCX:UPRO) was up 1.39% or 0.0380 points to 2.7640 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which fell 2.89% or 2.81 points to trade at 94.29 at the close. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) declined 2.51% or 0.0995 points to end at 3.8575 and Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT) was down 2.45% or 2.48 points to 98.72.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 109 to 106 and 21 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.12% to 25.860.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.21% or 2.60 to $1223.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $56.45 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.02% or 0.68 to trade at $66.08 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.34% to 65.7583, while EUR/RUB fell 0.07% to 75.3008.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 96.07.