Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Financials and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which rose 6.04% or 1.39 points to trade at 24.40 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) added 3.44% or 6.00 points to end at 180.20 and Svenska Handelsbanken ser. A (ST:SHBa) was up 1.54% or 1.5 points to 99.2 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA), which lost 1.68% or 5.1 points to trade at 299.3 in late trade. Svenska Cellulosa AB SCA ser. B (ST:SCAb) declined 0.98% or 2.7 points to end at 272.0 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 0.97% or 5.0 points to 510.5.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 347 to 238 and 53 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 4.09% or 1.83 to $46.59 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 4.26% or 1.97 to hit $48.22 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 1.41% or 19.15 to trade at $1337.45 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.48% to 9.4370, while USD/SEK fell 0.63% to 8.5219.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.12% at 96.46.