Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Goods and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.58%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which rose 9.45% or 2.98 points to trade at 34.52 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) added 4.62% or 10.30 points to end at 233.30 and Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) was up 0.99% or 0.45 points to 46.12 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 5.49% or 4.50 points to trade at 77.45 in late trade. Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) declined 3.85% or 8.2 points to end at 205.0 and Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) shed 2.85% or 4.40 points to 149.90.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 362 to 250 and 59 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.63% or 1.14 to $42.27 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 2.53% or 1.13 to hit $43.62 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.53% or 6.55 to trade at $1217.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.27% to 9.8348, while USD/SEK rose 0.94% to 9.1753.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.19% at 100.17.