Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Technology, Industrials and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 1.73%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 2.41% or 29.0 points to trade at 1232.0 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 0.94% or 5.5 points to end at 590.8 and Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) was down 0.04% or 0.1 points to 262.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 4.97% or 0.40 points to trade at 7.65 in late trade. Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) declined 3.77% or 3.36 points to end at 85.74 and Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) shed 3.55% or 6.05 points to 164.60.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 414 to 217 and 51 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.48% or 0.30 to $63.31 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.44% or 0.30 to hit $67.94 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.80% or 10.80 to trade at $1336.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.24% to 10.2982, while USD/SEK rose 0.07% to 8.3974.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.18% at 89.85.