Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa), which rose 2.81% or 3.4 points to trade at 124.2 at the close. Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) added 0.98% or 2.1 points to end at 215.5 and Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) was up 0.84% or 0.90 points to 108.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 1.99% or 0.45 points to trade at 22.14 in late trade. Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) declined 1.89% or 3.50 points to end at 181.70 and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) shed 1.83% or 4.0 points to 215.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 429 to 310 and 76 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.89% or 0.46 to $51.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.85% or 0.49 to hit $57.33 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.24% or 16.11 to trade at $1286.89 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.35% to 9.5989, while USD/SEK rose 0.78% to 8.1675.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.37% at 93.48.