Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Power, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 2.43% to hit a new 3-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were PIK (MCX:PIKK), which rose 0.43% or 1.20 points to trade at 279.00 at the close. NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 0.31% or 2.5 points to end at 801.5 and MVideo (MCX:MVID) was up 0.11% or 0.40 points to 375.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR), which lost 6.54% or 0.0616 points to trade at 0.8800 in late trade. SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) declined 5.06% or 8.42 points to end at 157.99 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 4.94% or 0.0469 points to 0.9021.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 187 to 33 and 13 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 5.47% to 26.220.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.07% or 0.85 to $1256.45 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.21% or 0.63 to hit $52.87 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.94% or 0.52 to trade at $55.76 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.13% to 57.3230, while EUR/RUB rose 0.12% to 60.772.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 100.92.