Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Telecoms and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA), which rose 1.52% or 7.8 points to trade at 520.6 at the close. Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) added 1.49% or 1.70 points to end at 116.00 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 0.97% or 0.9 points to 93.7 in late trade.
Biggest losers included H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which lost 1.55% or 2.0 points to trade at 128.4 in late trade. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) declined 0.94% or 8.2 points to end at 860.0 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 0.91% or 6.6 points to 715.2.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 397 to 226 and 61 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 2.44% or 1.65 to $65.98 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.91% or 1.39 to hit $71.42 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.34% or 16.30 to trade at $1202.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.02% to 10.4096, while USD/SEK rose 0.13% to 9.1364.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.06% at 96.25.