Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 2.07%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 5.52% or 37.2 points to trade at 711.6 at the close. Meanwhile, Atlas Copco AB Series B (ST:ATCOb) added 3.88% or 7.5 points to end at 199.5 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 3.68% or 2.6 points to 72.1 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nordea Bank Abp (ST:NDASE), which rose 0.60% or 0.46 points to trade at 77.45 at the close. Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) added 0.72% or 0.80 points to end at 111.30 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) was up 0.76% or 0.68 points to 89.78.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 411 to 221 and 50 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.25% or 0.64 to $51.64 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.55% or 0.33 to hit $60.30 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.04% or 0.50 to trade at $1248.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.43% to 10.2846, while USD/SEK fell 0.03% to 9.0932.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.30% at 97.472.