Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Basic Materials and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 10.47% or 9.1 points to trade at 96.0 at the close. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) added 4.27% or 3.64 points to end at 88.92 and Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) was up 4.09% or 9.4 points to 239.3 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA), which lost 4.05% or 1.66 points to trade at 39.28 in late trade. Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) declined 1.95% or 2.00 points to end at 100.55 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) shed 1.73% or 3.80 points to 215.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 308 to 296 and 67 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 0.31% or 0.21 to $66.86 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.19% or 0.14 to hit $71.98 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.90% or 11.10 to trade at $1228.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.34% to 10.2988, while USD/SEK rose 0.06% to 8.8286.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 94.66.