Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.72%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa), which rose 0.42% or 0.9 points to trade at 214.1 at the close. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) added 0.19% or 0.20 points to end at 102.80 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 0.15% or 0.1 points to 67.8 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE), which lost 2.42% or 4.50 points to trade at 181.80 in late trade. Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) declined 2.13% or 6.2 points to end at 284.8 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) shed 1.88% or 4.80 points to 250.60.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 431 to 262 and 92 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 0.38% or 0.18 to $47.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 0.41% or 0.21 to hit $50.52 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.89% or 11.43 to trade at $1278.97 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.71% to 9.4895, while USD/SEK fell 0.34% to 8.0855.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 93.72.