Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.54%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (ST:KINVb), which rose 2.81% or 7.6 points to trade at 278.2 at the close. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) added 2.79% or 0.46 points to end at 16.97 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) was up 2.58% or 1.05 points to 41.73 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA), which lost 0.96% or 3.2 points to trade at 330.5 in late trade. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) declined 0.60% or 0.32 points to end at 52.58 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) shed 0.57% or 0.60 points to 105.40.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 321 to 298 and 57 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.01% or 0.58 to $57.94 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 2.00% or 1.27 to hit $64.67 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.01% or 0.10 to trade at $1248.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.86% to 10.0273, while USD/SEK rose 0.60% to 8.4990.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 93.77.