Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.12% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 0.91% or 5.0 points to trade at 555.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) added 0.83% or 0.7 points to end at 78.7 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) was up 0.78% or 8.0 points to 1037.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which fell 2.46% or 0.43 points to trade at 17.03 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) declined 2.06% or 6.00 points to end at 285.70 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) was down 2.01% or 0.80 points to 39.10.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 406 to 321 and 94 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.20% or 1.25 to $55.51 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 2.15% or 1.36 to hit $61.80 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.04% or 0.48 to trade at $1278.42 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 1.29% to 9.9088, while USD/SEK rose 0.42% to 8.4193.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.54% at 93.89.