Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Financials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb), which rose 2.11% or 2.80 points to trade at 135.80 at the close. Meanwhile, Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) added 1.46% or 1.50 points to end at 104.50 and Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb) was up 1.22% or 1.75 points to 145.45 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sandvik AB (ST:SAND), which fell 1.50% or 2.25 points to trade at 147.90 at the close. Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) declined 1.28% or 3.1 points to end at 239.5 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) was down 1.28% or 8.8 points to 679.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 327 to 298 and 60 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was up 1.53% or 0.90 to $59.72 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.48% or 0.32 to hit $67.13 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.52% or 6.95 to trade at $1322.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.32% to 10.4154, while USD/SEK fell 0.06% to 9.2323.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 96.197.