Russia stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Power, Oil&Gas and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 1.04%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 5.56% or 98.00 points to trade at 1859.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p) added 3.24% or 5.06 points to end at 161.30 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) was up 3.02% or 2.70 points to 92.10 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which fell 2.23% or 13.70 points to trade at 601.30 at the close. MVideo (MCX:MVID) declined 2.03% or 8.30 points to end at 399.70 and PIK (MCX:PIKK) was down 1.76% or 6.10 points to 340.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 128 to 67 and 28 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.75% to 30.600.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.11% or 1.40 to $1231.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.62% or 0.42 to hit $67.17 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.24% or 0.19 to trade at $77.43 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.03% to 65.7393, while EUR/RUB fell 0.12% to 74.8304.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 96.41.
