Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Manufacturing sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 0.43%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR), which rose 2.59% or 42.5 points to trade at 1686.5 at the close. Meanwhile, Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT) added 2.43% or 2.42 points to end at 102.10 and Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) was up 1.83% or 1.62 points to 89.98 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which fell 2.99% or 17.8 points to trade at 577.2 at the close. MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN) declined 2.37% or 342.0 points to end at 14100.0 and Lukoil (MCX:LKOH) was down 2.04% or 116.0 points to 5561.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 127 to 103 and 16 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.09% to 23.020.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.53% or 6.85 to $1292.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.62% or 0.35 to hit $56.42 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.58% or 0.38 to trade at $66.12 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.37% to 66.0357, while EUR/RUB rose 0.07% to 74.1795.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 97.257.