Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Telecoms and Basic Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 12.40% or 0.75 points to trade at 6.83 at the close. Meanwhile, Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) added 1.91% or 3.15 points to end at 168.20 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) was up 1.53% or 3.50 points to 232.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (ST:KINVb), which fell 1.59% or 5.1 points to trade at 315.8 at the close. Investor AB ser. B (ST:INVEb) declined 1.47% or 5.6 points to end at 375.6 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) was down 1.46% or 1.24 points to 83.90.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 348 to 272 and 50 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 0.38% or 0.27 to $70.97 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 1.12% or 0.86 to hit $77.98 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.08% or 1.10 to trade at $1319.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.33% to 10.3011, while USD/SEK rose 0.05% to 8.6027.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.22% at 92.24.