Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Technology and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which rose 11.53% or 12.00 points to trade at 116.05 at the close. Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) added 2.82% or 2.73 points to end at 99.39 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) was up 2.14% or 1.98 points to 94.48 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA), which lost 3.69% or 7.3 points to trade at 190.7 in late trade. Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) declined 3.09% or 2.3 points to end at 71.5 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) shed 2.75% or 0.90 points to 31.80.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 326 to 297 and 49 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.37% or 0.19 to $51.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.21% or 0.13 to hit $60.43 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.81% or 10.00 to trade at $1218.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.16% to 10.2843, while USD/SEK rose 0.22% to 9.1134.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.38% at 97.352.