Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.11%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA), which rose 2.09% or 1.84 points to trade at 89.80 at the close. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) added 2.07% or 1.04 points to end at 51.30 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) was up 1.14% or 0.96 points to 85.16 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which lost 3.65% or 4.15 points to trade at 109.40 in late trade. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) declined 1.64% or 1.11 points to end at 66.53 and Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb) shed 1.62% or 1.4 points to 85.1.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 339 to 265 and 72 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 0.68% or 0.49 to $72.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 1.43% or 1.13 to hit $80.35 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.08% or 1.00 to trade at $1291.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.08% to 10.2180, while USD/SEK fell 0.00% to 8.6725.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 93.46.