Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN), which rose 3.34% or 361.0 points to trade at 11171.0 at the close. NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) added 2.45% or 3.65 points to end at 152.89 and Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) was up 2.25% or 18.5 points to 839.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which lost 4.96% or 222.0 points to trade at 4251.0 in late trade. Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) declined 2.34% or 17.5 points to end at 730.0 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) shed 1.86% or 0.0705 points to 3.7215.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 106 to 105 and 17 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 2.25% to 21.750.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.45% or 6.10 to $1350.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.35% or 0.83 to hit $62.38 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.13% or 0.73 to trade at $65.57 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.07% to 56.3492, while EUR/RUB fell 0.17% to 69.8825.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 89.13.