Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrials, Basic Materials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 1.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 7.06% or 2.37 points to trade at 35.96 at the close. Sandvik AB (ST:SAND) added 3.58% or 4.50 points to end at 130.20 and Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) was up 3.17% or 8.4 points to 273.1 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa), which lost 0.43% or 0.5 points to trade at 116.4 in late trade. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) declined 0.41% or 0.20 points to end at 48.09 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) shed 0.37% or 0.2 points to 68.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 444 to 279 and 73 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.44% or 0.21 to $47.74 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.29% or 0.15 to hit $51.81 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.32% or 4.10 to trade at $1292.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.09% to 9.5307, while USD/SEK rose 0.34% to 8.1013.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.40% at 93.37.