Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Power, Mining and Manufacturing sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 0.20%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR), which rose 3.82% or 70.5 points to trade at 1915.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Unipro (MCX:UPRO) added 3.19% or 0.0860 points to end at 2.7850 and United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) was up 3.19% or 0.880 points to 28.480 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY), which fell 3.52% or 3.40 points to trade at 93.10 at the close. Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) declined 1.24% or 5.90 points to end at 469.00 and RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) was down 1.18% or 0.0086 points to 0.7184.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 122 to 99 and 17 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 1.08% to 23.720.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.50% or 6.50 to $1297.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.78% or 1.21 to hit $66.67 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.15% or 0.88 to trade at $75.59 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.16% to 62.3756, while EUR/RUB fell 0.10% to 72.5124.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.17% at 94.37.