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 lost 0.57%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR), which rose 2.31% or 0.0120 points to trade at 0.5320 at the close. Meanwhile, Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) added 1.80% or 13 points to end at 734 and Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) was up 0.89% or 4.0 points to 455.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL), which fell 2.32% or 115.0 points to trade at 4835.0 at the close. AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p) declined 2.26% or 3800 points to end at 164700 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was down 2.23% or 3.84 points to 168.50.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 127 to 102 and 17 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 1.97% to 19.360.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.21% or 2.75 to $1292.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.91% or 0.58 to hit $63.31 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.61% or 0.44 to trade at $71.11 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.14% to 64.2628, while EUR/RUB fell 0.04% to 72.6650.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 96.510.