Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Power, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 0.44%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which rose 3.17% or 15.45 points to trade at 503.00 at the close. Meanwhile, NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) added 2.54% or 13.1 points to end at 529.2 and DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY) was up 2.19% or 7.00 points to 326.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which fell 12.62% or 1.300 points to trade at 9.000 at the close. SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) declined 4.64% or 6.50 points to end at 133.50 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) was down 3.54% or 2.81 points to 76.61.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 138 to 82 and 16 ended unchanged.
Shares in AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) fell to 3-years lows; falling 12.62% or 1.300 to 9.000.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 1.47% to 18.100.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.66% or 8.30 to $1265.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.09% or 0.05 to hit $57.38 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.28% or 0.18 to trade at $63.41 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.29% to 58.6292, while EUR/RUB rose 0.11% to 69.2031.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.39% at 93.10.