Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Oil & Gas and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 3.46% or 3.50 points to trade at 104.60 at the close. Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (ST:KINVBs) added 1.43% or 3.0 points to end at 212.5 and ABB Ltd (ST:ABB) was up 1.01% or 1.9 points to 190.6 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which lost 3.17% or 0.76 points to trade at 23.25 in late trade. Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) declined 2.90% or 4.0 points to end at 134.1 and Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb) shed 1.17% or 1.17 points to 98.83.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 310 to 270 and 66 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 0.36% or 0.16 to $44.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.07% or 0.03 to hit $45.92 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.02% or 0.25 to trade at $1318.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.15% to 9.5863, while USD/SEK rose 0.20% to 8.5827.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.08% at 95.87.