Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financials, Consumer Services and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.58%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 2.18% or 0.14 points to trade at 6.34 at the close. Atlas Copco AB Class A (ST:ATCOa) added 0.81% or 2.9 points to end at 361.6 and Atlas Copco AB Series B (ST:ATCOb) was up 0.60% or 1.9 points to 325.6 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa), which lost 2.06% or 1.70 points to trade at 80.90 in late trade. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) declined 1.78% or 2.4 points to end at 134.8 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) shed 1.72% or 1.90 points to 108.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 440 to 189 and 47 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 2.74% or 1.86 to $66.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 0.80% or 0.60 to hit $74.72 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.05% or 0.60 to trade at $1303.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.93% to 10.3545, while USD/SEK rose 1.58% to 8.9643.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.40% at 94.74.