Investing.com – Russian Federation stocks were mixed after the close on Monday, as gains in the Manufacturing, Power and Oil and Gas sectors led shares higher while losses in the Mining, Telecom and Oil and Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the RTSI rose 5.59%, while the MICEX index lost 0.83%.
The best performers of the session on the RTSI were FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which rose 11.90% or 0.0048 points to trade at 0.0448 at the close. Meanwhile, Mostotrest (MCX:MSTT) added 10.93% or 6.70 points to end at 68.00 and VTB (MCX:VTBR) was up 10.59% or 0.0058 points to 0.0611 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which fell 25.63% or 173.00 points to trade at 502.00 at the close. AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) declined 11.07% or 1.530 points to end at 12.290 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) was down 8.52% or 2.58 points to 27.70.
The top performers on the MICEX were FSK EES (MCX:FEES) which rose 11.90% to 0.0448, Mostotrest (MCX:MSTT) which was up 10.93% to settle at 68.00 and VTB (MCX:VTBR) which gained 10.59% to close at 0.0611.
The worst performers were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) which was down 25.63% to 502.00 in late trade, AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) which lost 11.07% to settle at 12.290 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) which was down 8.52% to 27.70 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 81 to 69 and 3 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was down 1.15% or 13.70 to $1182.30 a troy ounce.
Elsewhere in commodities trading, crude oil for delivery in February fell 3.13% or 1.79 to hit $55.34 a barrel, while the February brent oil contract fell 2.31% or 1.42 to trade at $59.97 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 4.51% to 56.225, while EUR/RUB fell 3.28% to 68.907.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.08% at 89.76.