Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Goods and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.24% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which rose 4.00% or 1.51 points to trade at 39.28 at the close. Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) added 3.37% or 7.1 points to end at 217.8 and Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) was up 2.48% or 4.60 points to 190.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 9.45% or 6.05 points to trade at 58.00 in late trade. Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) declined 1.69% or 3.70 points to end at 215.00 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 1.10% or 5.5 points to 496.5.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 324 to 232 and 45 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 3.09% or 1.59 to $53.09 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 3.04% or 1.65 to hit $55.98 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.21% or 2.45 to trade at $1164.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.51% to 9.7473, while USD/SEK rose 0.07% to 9.1883.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.38% at 101.21.