Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Mining, Manufacturing and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 0.17%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY), which rose 2.62% or 2.60 points to trade at 102.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 2.52% or 1.93 points to end at 78.40 and DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY) was up 2.40% or 7.60 points to 324.10 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL), which fell 4.51% or 1.760 points to trade at 37.300 at the close. MMK (MCX:MAGN) declined 1.50% or 0.670 points to end at 43.850 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was down 1.43% or 1.94 points to 133.31.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 121 to 103 and 18 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 2.13% to 14.880.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.55% or 7.04 to $1278.84 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.22% or 0.12 to hit $54.02 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.17% or 0.10 to trade at $60.23 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.29% to 57.9025, while EUR/RUB rose 0.06% to 67.3900.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 94.43.