Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 3.82% or 17.90 points to trade at 486.40 at the close. Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) added 2.52% or 1.90 points to end at 77.30 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken A (ST:SEBa) was up 1.73% or 1.30 points to 76.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nokia Oyj (ST:NOKIA), which lost 7.48% or 3.49 points to trade at 43.17 in late trade. Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) declined 1.89% or 1.20 points to end at 62.20 and Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIBs) shed 1.79% or 3.1 points to 170.4.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 285 to 267 and 60 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 2.14% or 0.93 to $44.37 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 3.44% or 1.50 to hit $45.13 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.46% or 5.85 to trade at $1260.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.13% to 9.2821, while USD/SEK fell 0.15% to 8.1524.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.04% at 94.18.