Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Industrials, Basic Materials and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb), which rose 1.61% or 0.87 points to trade at 54.77 at the close. Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) added 1.08% or 2.00 points to end at 186.60 and Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) was up 0.96% or 2.00 points to 210.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 3.66% or 0.66 points to trade at 17.36 in late trade. AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) declined 1.12% or 2.1 points to end at 186.2 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) shed 0.91% or 1.6 points to 174.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 436 to 303 and 82 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 2.61% or 1.45 to $57.09 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 2.85% or 1.77 to hit $63.84 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.95% or 12.07 to trade at $1281.27 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.45% to 9.7454, while USD/SEK fell 0.43% to 8.3974.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 94.70.