Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which rose 3.31% or 1.47 points to trade at 45.89 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 2.32% or 15.4 points to end at 679.3 and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) was up 1.70% or 1.34 points to 80.14 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which lost 3.71% or 29.8 points to trade at 774.4 in late trade. Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) declined 0.64% or 0.7 points to end at 101.2 and ABB Ltd (ST:ABB) shed 0.57% or 1.2 points to 211.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 314 to 313 and 65 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 0.12% or 0.09 to $72.17 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 0.93% or 0.75 to hit $81.28 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.12% or 1.50 to trade at $1205.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.17% to 10.3544, while USD/SEK rose 0.01% to 8.7988.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 93.72.