Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Basic Materials and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 1.66%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 0.12% or 0.7 points to trade at 563.3 at the close. ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) fell 0.55% or 1.0 points to end at 180.2 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) was down 0.70% or 8.5 points to 1213.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AB SKF B (ST:SKFb), which lost 2.87% or 5.0 points to trade at 169.1 in late trade. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 2.82% or 1.36 points to end at 46.85 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) shed 2.36% or 7.00 points to 289.40.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 452 to 158 and 53 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.56% or 0.35 to $62.06 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.29% or 0.19 to hit $66.02 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.45% or 5.90 to trade at $1318.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.00% to 10.0698, while USD/SEK fell 0.42% to 8.1594.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.44% at 89.40.