Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb), which rose 1.56% or 1.38 points to trade at 89.88 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 1.07% or 6.0 points to end at 566.0 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) was up 1.05% or 1.9 points to 183.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIBs), which lost 3.84% or 6.7 points to trade at 167.6 in late trade. Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) declined 1.89% or 2.90 points to end at 150.60 and Nokia Oyj (ST:NOKIA) shed 1.35% or 0.64 points to 46.91.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 313 to 265 and 74 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 3.05% or 1.50 to $47.61 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 3.11% or 1.58 to hit $49.30 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.23% or 3.10 to trade at $1343.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.24% to 9.4857, while USD/SEK fell 0.02% to 8.3848.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 94.55.