Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Consumer Services and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.49%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 1.86% or 2.0 points to trade at 109.8 at the close. Meanwhile, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) added 1.73% or 1.48 points to end at 87.26 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) was up 1.53% or 1.55 points to 103.05 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which fell 5.08% or 1.93 points to trade at 36.06 at the close. Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) declined 2.27% or 1.9 points to end at 81.7 and Hexagon AB ser. B (ST:HEXAb) was down 2.07% or 10.6 points to 502.6.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 372 to 262 and 57 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.48% or 0.31 to $64.09 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.59% or 0.42 to hit $70.68 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.51% or 6.65 to trade at $1308.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.01% to 10.4247, while USD/SEK fell 0.07% to 9.2535.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 96.618.