Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Telecoms, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which rose 6.75% or 5.25 points to trade at 83.00 at the close. Meanwhile, United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) added 2.67% or 0.720 points to end at 27.700 and MMK (MCX:MAGN) was up 2.20% or 0.985 points to 45.755 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which fell 4.24% or 32.0 points to trade at 722.5 at the close. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) declined 3.66% or 0.1515 points to end at 3.9935 and Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) was down 3.02% or 15.10 points to 485.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 107 to 91 and 24 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.60% to 22.210.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.23% or 3.00 to $1288.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.84% or 0.60 to hit $71.97 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.39% or 0.31 to trade at $78.82 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.01% to 61.6460, while EUR/RUB fell 1.21% to 72.5043.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 93.61.