Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Financials, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 1.70%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA), which rose 0.85% or 2.5 points to trade at 297.0 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 0.29% or 1.5 points to end at 511.5 and Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIBs) was down 0.46% or 0.8 points to 173.1 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which lost 3.37% or 0.74 points to trade at 21.25 in late trade. Svenska Handelsbanken ser. A (ST:SHBa) declined 3.23% or 3.2 points to end at 95.8 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken A (ST:SEBa) shed 3.19% or 2.30 points to 69.80.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 432 to 153 and 43 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 4.51% or 2.21 to $46.78 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 4.25% or 2.13 to hit $47.97 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 1.06% or 14.25 to trade at $1353.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.61% to 9.4467, while USD/SEK rose 1.34% to 8.5321.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.65% at 96.23.