Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 1.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Boliden AB (ST:BOL), which rose 2.13% or 5.20 points to trade at 248.80 at the close. Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb) added 1.14% or 1.50 points to end at 133.30 and Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) was up 0.41% or 1.2 points to 291.3 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 2.84% or 2.30 points to trade at 78.70 in late trade. Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) declined 2.31% or 2.25 points to end at 95.20 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken A (ST:SEBa) shed 2.15% or 2.00 points to 91.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 407 to 197 and 65 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 3.17% or 1.46 to $47.52 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 2.88% or 1.39 to hit $49.63 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.98% or 11.60 to trade at $1190.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.40% to 9.7580, while USD/SEK fell 0.17% to 9.2287.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.02% at 101.50.