Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 2.04%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p), which rose 5.00% or 25.40 points to trade at 533.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) added 4.36% or 31.10 points to end at 743.80 and Lukoil (MCX:LKOH) was up 4.14% or 202.5 points to 5098.5 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MVideo (MCX:MVID), which fell 2.77% or 11.60 points to trade at 406.60 at the close. Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL) declined 2.73% or 132.0 points to end at 4695.5 and Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) was down 2.66% or 15.6 points to 570.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 135 to 77 and 26 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 3.32% to 27.360.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 1.11% or 13.60 to $1239.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 2.85% or 1.45 to hit $52.38 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 2.51% or 1.49 to trade at $60.95 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.42% to 66.6722, while EUR/RUB fell 0.08% to 75.6823.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.34% at 96.868.