Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.80%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which rose 4.51% or 4.65 points to trade at 107.75 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 1.66% or 11.5 points to end at 705.9 and Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) was up 1.54% or 0.64 points to 42.08 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hexagon AB ser. B (ST:HEXAb), which lost 4.69% or 22.8 points to trade at 463.1 in late trade. Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (ST:KINVb) declined 4.64% or 11.7 points to end at 240.6 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) shed 3.73% or 3.2 points to 83.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 375 to 262 and 51 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.43% or 0.27 to $63.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.62% or 0.45 to hit $73.28 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.03% or 0.40 to trade at $1231.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.19% to 10.3384, while USD/SEK rose 0.16% to 9.0756.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 96.25.