Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Technology and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Sandvik AB (ST:SAND), which rose 1.54% or 2.15 points to trade at 141.40 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 1.00% or 6.6 points to end at 666.1 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 0.31% or 0.2 points to 78.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which lost 3.24% or 2.7 points to trade at 81.9 in late trade. Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) declined 1.66% or 3.4 points to end at 198.1 and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) shed 1.59% or 2.2 points to 134.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 362 to 253 and 57 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.13% or 0.07 to $54.12 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.05% or 0.03 to hit $62.73 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.22% or 2.85 to trade at $1279.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.13% to 10.2485, while USD/SEK fell 0.13% to 9.0132.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 95.975.