Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.72%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa), which rose 0.42% or 0.9 points to trade at 214.1 at the close. Meanwhile, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) added 0.19% or 0.20 points to end at 102.80 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 0.15% or 0.1 points to 67.8 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE), which fell 2.42% or 4.50 points to trade at 181.80 at the close. Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) declined 2.13% or 6.2 points to end at 284.8 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) was down 1.88% or 4.80 points to 250.60.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 431 to 262 and 92 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was down 0.38% or 0.18 to $47.41 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 0.41% or 0.21 to hit $50.52 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.88% or 11.38 to trade at $1279.02 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.71% to 9.4894, while USD/SEK fell 0.34% to 8.0855.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 93.72.