Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 1.45%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which rose 13.90% or 88.4 points to trade at 724.2 at the close. Meanwhile, NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) added 5.62% or 56.90 points to end at 1070.00 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 3.84% or 0.0258 points to 0.6982 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Unipro (MCX:UPRO), which fell 1.69% or 0.0450 points to trade at 2.6200 at the close. SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) declined 1.58% or 1.50 points to end at 93.60 and Rostelecom (MCX:RTKM) was down 0.78% or 0.54 points to 68.66.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 128 to 73 and 26 ended unchanged.
Shares in NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) rose to all time highs; gaining 5.62% or 56.90 to 1070.00.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.04% to 25.160.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.32% or 3.90 to $1217.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 0.01% or 0.01 to hit $68.73 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.18% or 0.14 to trade at $76.27 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.21% to 67.2296, while EUR/RUB rose 0.69% to 78.5564.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.47% at 94.63.