Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Basic Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 1.00%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb), which rose 4.32% or 5.47 points to trade at 132.07 at the close. Meanwhile, Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) added 4.22% or 32.6 points to end at 805.0 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 3.93% or 2.9 points to 76.1 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which fell 2.06% or 1.9 points to trade at 92.1 at the close. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) declined 2.02% or 3.4 points to end at 164.3 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was down 0.92% or 1.05 points to 112.80.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 331 to 309 and 43 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 2.79% or 1.42 to $52.35 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 2.42% or 1.44 to hit $60.90 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 1.12% or 13.70 to trade at $1239.70 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.54% to 10.2487, while USD/SEK fell 0.92% to 9.0209.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.40% at 96.810.