Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.87% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson B (ST:ERICb), which rose 3.69% or 1.98 points to trade at 55.58 at the close. Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (BS:KINVBs) added 2.66% or 6.3 points to end at 245.2 and Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) was up 2.36% or 4.50 points to 195.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 2.43% or 1.30 points to trade at 52.10 in late trade. Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) declined 0.56% or 1.3 points to end at 229.8 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) shed 0.08% or 0.1 points to 131.3.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 382 to 304 and 73 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 1.90% or 1.02 to $54.80 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 1.60% or 0.90 to hit $57.08 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.11% or 1.35 to trade at $1237.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.25% to 9.4623, while USD/SEK rose 0.38% to 8.9700.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.44% at 101.36.