Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Consumer Services and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.56%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 12.79% or 0.83 points to trade at 7.30 at the close. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) added 1.27% or 17.5 points to end at 1400.0 and AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) was up 0.71% or 1.2 points to 171.2 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which lost 1.79% or 1.5 points to trade at 83.4 in late trade. Atlas Copco AB Series B (ST:ATCOb) declined 1.40% or 3.5 points to end at 247.3 and Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) shed 1.39% or 3.1 points to 220.1.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 361 to 264 and 55 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.26% or 0.17 to $65.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 1.33% or 0.98 to hit $74.42 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.19% or 2.40 to trade at $1280.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.50% to 10.2502, while USD/SEK rose 0.53% to 8.8326.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 94.50.