Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 0.91% or 12.0 points to trade at 1336.0 at the close. Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) added 0.86% or 0.95 points to end at 111.50 and Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) was up 0.72% or 1.6 points to 223.3 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 3.15% or 0.20 points to trade at 6.15 in late trade. Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) declined 1.43% or 3.20 points to end at 221.10 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 1.25% or 8.1 points to 639.5.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 308 to 307 and 54 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.31% or 0.86 to $64.95 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.47% or 1.13 to hit $75.66 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.13% or 1.70 to trade at $1297.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.49% to 10.2380, while USD/SEK fell 0.81% to 8.7556.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 94.03.