Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 0.78%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 4.48% or 0.44 points to trade at 10.27 at the close. Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) added 2.03% or 1.6 points to end at 82.6 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) was up 1.78% or 5.00 points to 286.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which lost 0.29% or 1.6 points to trade at 555.2 in late trade. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 47.44 and Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb) gained 0.05% or 0.1 points to 102.2.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 385 to 227 and 56 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.26% or 0.16 to $62.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.08% or 0.05 to hit $65.59 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 1.42% or 18.70 to trade at $1338.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.02% to 10.1928, while USD/SEK fell 0.59% to 8.2119.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.48% at 89.53.