Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Power, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 1.79%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which rose 9.28% or 0.0162 points to trade at 0.1902 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) added 8.59% or 0.0739 points to end at 0.9340 and Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP) was up 4.07% or 5.00 points to 128.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which lost 2.30% or 17.00 points to trade at 723.00 in late trade. DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY) declined 1.41% or 3.20 points to end at 223.80 and Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA) shed 1.12% or 1.70 points to 150.10.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 140 to 72 and 15 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.17% to 23.300.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.00% or 12.95 to $1276.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.77% or 0.38 to hit $49.24 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.57% or 0.30 to trade at $52.14 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.02% to 55.8807, while EUR/RUB rose 0.28% to 60.637.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.63% at 99.03.