Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrials, Technology and Basic Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.88%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which rose 2.21% or 0.69 points to trade at 31.87 at the close. Meanwhile, Atlas Copco AB Class A (ST:ATCOa) added 2.13% or 5.8 points to end at 278.1 and Atlas Copco AB Series B (ST:ATCOb) was up 2.02% or 5.0 points to 252.3 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which fell 0.37% or 2.4 points to trade at 647.0 at the close. Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) declined 0.29% or 0.12 points to end at 40.74 and Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) was 0.00% or 0.0 points to 143.5.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 397 to 243 and 56 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.25% or 0.16 to $63.05 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.13% or 0.09 to hit $72.06 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.29% or 3.65 to trade at $1273.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.18% to 10.7713, while USD/SEK fell 0.09% to 9.6544.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.16% at 97.922.