Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Power, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 0.48% to hit a new all time high.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR), which rose 3.64% or 0.0208 points to trade at 0.5927 at the close. Meanwhile, Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) added 1.93% or 1.69 points to end at 89.24 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was up 1.16% or 0.0021 points to 0.1845 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which fell 1.90% or 1.24 points to trade at 64.08 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 1.33% or 0.0179 points to end at 1.3311 and Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) was down 1.22% or 8.90 points to 720.30.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 129 to 98 and 13 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.53% to 22.640.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 1.10% or 14.85 to $1331.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.19% or 0.10 to hit $53.89 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.77% or 0.49 to trade at $62.80 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.25% to 64.7085, while EUR/RUB fell 0.36% to 73.2175.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.22% at 96.705.