Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Technology and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 1.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 4.37% or 3.65 points to trade at 87.15 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) added 0.72% or 1.20 points to end at 167.10 and Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) was up 0.41% or 1.2 points to 294.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Svenska Handelsbanken ser. A (ST:SHBa), which lost 2.37% or 2.4 points to trade at 99.0 in late trade. Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) declined 2.22% or 3.0 points to end at 132.0 and Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) shed 1.94% or 4.5 points to 227.9.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 318 to 271 and 50 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.29% or 0.14 to $48.85 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.34% or 0.17 to hit $50.18 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 1.05% or 14.00 to trade at $1353.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.09% to 9.3987, while USD/SEK fell 0.04% to 8.4329.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.10% at 95.62.