Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Oil & Gas and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 4.65% or 1.65 points to trade at 37.14 at the close. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) added 1.58% or 0.92 points to end at 59.17 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) was up 1.09% or 6.0 points to 555.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which lost 3.86% or 1.37 points to trade at 34.09 in late trade. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) declined 2.67% or 7.30 points to end at 265.70 and Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) shed 1.87% or 3.1 points to 163.1.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 484 to 204 and 65 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.44% or 0.21 to $47.76 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.10% or 0.05 to hit $50.97 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.46% or 5.75 to trade at $1254.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.37% to 9.5448, while USD/SEK fell 0.40% to 8.7745.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.68% at 98.91.