Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Financials and Healthcare sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.67%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 0.99% or 10.0 points to trade at 1017.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) added 0.88% or 0.47 points to end at 53.62 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 0.82% or 0.6 points to 73.4 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Boliden AB (ST:BOL), which fell 6.56% or 20.20 points to trade at 287.70 at the close. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) declined 3.66% or 0.76 points to end at 20.01 and Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) was down 3.15% or 6.7 points to 206.1.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 491 to 253 and 79 ended unchanged.
Shares in Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) fell to 52-week lows; falling 3.66% or 0.76 to 20.01.
Crude oil for December delivery was up 1.10% or 0.57 to $52.47 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.38% or 0.79 to hit $58.16 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.31% or 3.93 to trade at $1276.97 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.20% to 9.6524, while USD/SEK rose 0.07% to 8.2056.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 93.81.