Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Telecoms, Healthcare and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 2.68% or 2.35 points to trade at 90.05 at the close. Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb) added 1.60% or 1.52 points to end at 96.42 and Nokia Oyj (ST:NOKIA) was up 1.15% or 0.50 points to 44.14 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA), which lost 5.62% or 2.21 points to trade at 37.14 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 1.83% or 10.0 points to end at 537.0 and Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) shed 1.43% or 3.5 points to 241.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 357 to 254 and 56 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 1.44% or 0.73 to $50.12 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 1.31% or 0.68 to hit $51.10 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.39% or 4.95 to trade at $1262.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.04% to 9.6955, while USD/SEK fell 0.07% to 8.9068.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.10% at 98.72.