Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Telecoms and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.07%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 5.21% or 0.85 points to trade at 17.15 at the close. AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) added 1.98% or 3.8 points to end at 192.8 and Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb) was up 1.09% or 1.72 points to 159.97 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa), which lost 2.30% or 4.7 points to trade at 199.6 in late trade. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) declined 1.28% or 14.0 points to end at 1084.0 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) shed 0.91% or 2.70 points to 294.90.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 362 to 258 and 43 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.53% or 0.34 to $64.64 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.36% or 0.25 to hit $70.12 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.46% or 6.20 to trade at $1341.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.14% to 9.8358, while USD/SEK fell 0.55% to 8.0168.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.50% at 90.17.