MOSCOW: Russia stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares lower. At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 1.41%. The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which rose 2.77% or 0.1095 points to trade at 4.0600 at the close. Meanwhile, FSK EES (MCX:FEES) added 2.38% or 0.0055 points to end at 0.2365 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 1.85% or 0.0228 points to 1.2548 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which fell 3.42% or 48.50 points to trade at 1370.00 at the close. Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) declined 3.22% or 14.00 points to end at 421.00 and Severstal – ao (MCX:CHMF) was down 2.95% or 29.30 points to 964.40. Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 103 to 86 and 25 ended unchanged. Shares in FSK EES (MCX:FEES) rose to 3-years highs; rising 2.38% or 0.0055 to 0.2365. The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.04% to 22.820.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.52% or 6.20 to $1197.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.85% or 0.45 to hit $52.72 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.48% or 0.27 to trade at $55.43 a barrel. USD/RUB was up 0.13% to 59.8968, while EUR/RUB fell 0.07% to 63.991. The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 100.50.
