Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Financials, Basic Materials and Consumer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 1.66%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 0.12% or 0.7 points to trade at 563.3 at the close. Meanwhile, ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) fell 0.55% or 1.0 points to end at 180.2 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) was down 0.70% or 8.5 points to 1213.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AB SKF B (ST:SKFb), which fell 2.87% or 5.0 points to trade at 169.1 at the close. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 2.82% or 1.36 points to end at 46.85 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) was down 2.36% or 7.00 points to 289.40.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 452 to 158 and 53 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.51% or 0.32 to $62.09 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.27% or 0.18 to hit $66.03 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.45% or 5.90 to trade at $1318.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.00% to 10.0698, while USD/SEK fell 0.42% to 8.1593.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.43% at 89.41.