Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Telecoms and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.51%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA), which rose 6.95% or 10.6 points to trade at 163.2 at the close. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) added 5.57% or 13.2 points to end at 250.0 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 1.35% or 3.5 points to 263.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 3.28% or 1.80 points to trade at 53.05 in late trade. Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) declined 1.74% or 3.80 points to end at 214.00 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 1.32% or 6.3 points to 470.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 321 to 281 and 64 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 1.37% or 0.72 to $53.35 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 1.57% or 0.87 to hit $56.19 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 1.58% or 18.85 to trade at $1214.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.05% to 9.4479, while USD/SEK fell 0.89% to 8.7526.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.87% at 99.55.