Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Oil & Gas and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.36% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 0.97% or 10.0 points to trade at 1038.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) added 0.95% or 0.8 points to end at 80.0 and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) was up 0.90% or 1.7 points to 191.2 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which fell 2.05% or 0.81 points to trade at 38.77 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) declined 1.99% or 5.60 points to end at 276.00 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) was down 1.42% or 3.50 points to 243.50.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 379 to 228 and 60 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.70% or 1.00 to $57.95 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $63.47 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.63% or 8.12 to trade at $1295.42 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.04% to 9.8827, while USD/SEK rose 0.15% to 8.2921.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 92.71.