Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Services and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.29% to hit a new 3-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 2.42% or 15.1 points to trade at 640.0 at the close. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) added 2.05% or 26.5 points to end at 1318.0 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) was up 1.79% or 5.75 points to 327.45 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 3.57% or 0.23 points to trade at 6.15 in late trade. Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) declined 1.01% or 2.40 points to end at 235.00 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) shed 0.77% or 0.77 points to 98.81.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 335 to 243 and 57 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 1.04% or 0.74 to $72.11 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.53% or 0.42 to hit $78.93 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.13% or 1.70 to trade at $1289.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.61% to 10.2411, while USD/SEK fell 0.63% to 8.6986.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 93.59.