Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.85%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Electrolux AB Class B (ST:ELUXb), which rose 2.91% or 2.70 points to trade at 95.40 at the close. Evolution AB (ST:EVOG) added 0.67% or 6.60 points to end at 984.80 and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) was up 0.28% or 0.50 points to 163.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sinch AB (ST:SINCH), which lost 2.28% or 0.50 points to trade at 21.39 in late trade. NIBE Industrier AB ser. B (ST:NIBEb) declined 2.03% or 1.00 points to end at 46.40 and Atlas Copco AB Series B (ST:ATCOb) shed 1.92% or 3.10 points to 158.40.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 462 to 307 and 77 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.78% or 0.53 to $68.90 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.58% or 0.42 to hit $72.56 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 1.17% or 31.51 to trade at $2,717.31 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.33% to 11.55, while USD/SEK rose 0.69% to 10.98.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.33% at 106.18.