Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Consumer Services and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 2.28% or 0.18 points to trade at 8.07 at the close. Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) added 1.22% or 1.04 points to end at 86.58 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) was up 1.02% or 1.0 points to 99.1 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb), which lost 5.00% or 8.35 points to trade at 158.50 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 1.60% or 9.8 points to end at 602.7 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) shed 1.53% or 4.50 points to 289.20.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 337 to 267 and 61 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 1.37% or 0.92 to $66.47 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 1.18% or 0.86 to hit $71.72 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.17% or 2.30 to trade at $1350.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.24% to 10.4230, while USD/SEK fell 0.58% to 8.4232.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 89.20.