Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Mining, Power and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 0.82%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL), which rose 17.65% or 4.050 points to trade at 27.000 at the close. Meanwhile, Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) added 5.88% or 0.0470 points to end at 0.8470 and NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) was up 4.88% or 33.5 points to 720.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which fell 3.06% or 17.5 points to trade at 555.0 at the close. Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) declined 2.02% or 2.34 points to end at 113.65 and MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) was down 1.75% or 8.60 points to 483.40.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 116 to 93 and 16 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.99% to 31.850.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.96% or 12.90 to $1325.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.26% or 0.18 to hit $68.22 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.18 to trade at $74.24 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.76% to 61.8648, while EUR/RUB rose 0.17% to 75.5917.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.62% at 90.64.