Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 1.95% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p), which rose 1.77% or 7.20 points to trade at 413.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) added 1.18% or 7.00 points to end at 601.70 and United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) was up 0.48% or 0.160 points to 33.540 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were VTB (MCX:VTBR), which fell 4.30% or 0.0023 points to trade at 0.0510 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 3.14% or 0.0252 points to end at 0.7782 and NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) was down 3.13% or 18.0 points to 557.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 155 to 64 and 14 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.83% to 21.990.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.39% or 5.30 to $1355.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.55% or 0.36 to hit $65.52 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.36% or 0.25 to trade at $69.56 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.03% to 57.2906, while EUR/RUB rose 0.82% to 71.3163.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.52% at 88.64.