Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Power, Mining and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 1.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 7.80% or 99.00 points to trade at 1367.50 at the close. Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p) added 4.03% or 4.47 points to end at 115.51 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 3.73% or 0.0329 points to 0.9149 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Megion (MCX:MFGS), which lost 1.67% or 10.0 points to trade at 590.0 in late trade. NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) declined 0.88% or 6.00 points to end at 679.00 and Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA) shed 0.34% or 0.55 points to 159.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 159 to 53 and 21 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.37% to 24.600.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.12% or 1.50 to $1290.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.83% or 0.44 to hit $52.74 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.68% or 0.38 to trade at $55.51 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.75% to 55.9378, while EUR/RUB fell 0.32% to 59.593.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.45% at 100.04.