Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Mining, Power and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.52%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON), which rose 15.95% or 80.40 points to trade at 584.40 at the close. Meanwhile, NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 5.16% or 29.5 points to end at 601.5 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 3.07% or 0.0237 points to 0.7958 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN), which fell 6.30% or 718.0 points to trade at 10680.0 at the close. Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) declined 2.38% or 57.00 points to end at 2333.00 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) was down 1.69% or 1.75 points to 101.75.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 114 to 95 and 23 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.63% to 22.510.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.21% or 2.60 to $1238.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 3.95% or 2.76 to hit $67.19 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 4.21% or 3.17 to trade at $72.16 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.37% to 62.3244, while EUR/RUB fell 0.23% to 72.9075.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 94.36.