Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 1.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which rose 3.67% or 1.72 points to trade at 48.60 at the close. Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb) added 3.22% or 4.67 points to end at 149.72 and Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb) was up 2.31% or 3.25 points to 143.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb), which lost 1.61% or 2.70 points to trade at 164.55 in late trade. Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) declined 1.28% or 0.51 points to end at 39.24 and Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb) shed 0.67% or 0.6 points to 95.4.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 358 to 243 and 54 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 2.93% or 1.86 to $65.28 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 2.94% or 2.02 to hit $70.67 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.16% or 2.20 to trade at $1342.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.33% to 10.2637, while USD/SEK fell 0.48% to 8.3185.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 89.41.