Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL), which rose 4.31% or 185.0 points to trade at 4480.0 at the close. Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) added 1.52% or 10 points to end at 700 and Unipro (MCX:UPRO) was up 1.39% or 0.0380 points to 2.7640 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which lost 2.89% or 2.81 points to trade at 94.29 in late trade. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) declined 2.51% or 0.0995 points to end at 3.8575 and Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT) shed 2.45% or 2.48 points to 98.72.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 109 to 106 and 21 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.12% to 25.860.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.23% or 2.80 to $1223.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.07% or 0.04 to hit $56.42 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.03% or 0.69 to trade at $66.07 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.34% to 65.7565, while EUR/RUB fell 0.06% to 75.3024.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 96.07.