Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 1.61%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE), which rose 4.63% or 7.00 points to trade at 158.10 at the close. Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) added 2.80% or 3.5 points to end at 128.3 and Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) was up 2.74% or 5.8 points to 217.7 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Svenska Cellulosa AB SCA ser. B (ST:SCAb), which lost 0.04% or 0.1 points to trade at 262.8 in late trade. Nokia Oyj (ST:NOKIA) added 0.09% or 0.04 points to end at 46.62 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) gained 0.31% or 1.5 points to 487.6.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 346 to 207 and 63 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 0.76% or 0.38 to $50.07 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 1.13% or 0.57 to hit $51.12 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.24% or 3.05 to trade at $1244.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.16% to 9.2406, while USD/SEK rose 0.20% to 8.1380.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.17% at 93.87.