Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Services and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 6.22% or 33.50 points to trade at 572.00 at the close. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) added 1.56% or 0.46 points to end at 29.88 and Nokia Oyj (ST:NOKIA) was up 1.06% or 0.46 points to 43.89 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE), which lost 1.85% or 2.80 points to trade at 148.80 in late trade. Hennes & Mauritz AB, H & M ser. B (ST:HMb) declined 1.40% or 3.6 points to end at 254.0 and Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) shed 1.28% or 1.00 points to 77.30.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 307 to 263 and 45 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.53% or 0.74 to $47.67 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 1.79% or 0.87 to hit $47.85 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.46% or 5.75 to trade at $1247.15 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.23% to 9.3565, while USD/SEK rose 0.48% to 8.3575.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.15% at 95.43.