Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Financials, Basic Materials and Healthcare sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.53%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 4.18% or 26.0 points to trade at 647.4 at the close. Meanwhile, SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) added 3.38% or 1.03 points to end at 31.50 and Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) was up 1.79% or 2.5 points to 141.9 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb), which fell 1.94% or 1.82 points to trade at 91.78 at the close. Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) declined 1.24% or 3.60 points to end at 286.20 and Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb) was down 0.43% or 0.70 points to 163.55.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 377 to 220 and 64 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.57% or 0.85 to $53.14 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.83% or 1.16 to hit $62.13 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 1.00% or 13.45 to trade at $1332.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.10% to 10.6558, while USD/SEK rose 0.19% to 9.4149.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 96.692.