Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Telecoms and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb), which rose 0.83% or 1.4 points to trade at 177.1 at the close. Hexagon AB ser. B (ST:HEXAb) added 0.58% or 2.7 points to end at 465.8 and Nordea Bank Abp (ST:NDASE) was up 0.56% or 0.45 points to 80.92 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which lost 3.25% or 3.50 points to trade at 104.25 in late trade. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) declined 2.56% or 4.1 points to end at 156.0 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 1.91% or 13.5 points to 692.4.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 315 to 297 and 68 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.49% or 1.57 to $61.53 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 2.28% or 1.67 to hit $71.50 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.18% or 2.20 to trade at $1227.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.19% to 10.3516, while USD/SEK rose 0.10% to 9.0656.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 96.10.