Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 1.08%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 3.26% or 3.30 points to trade at 104.60 at the close. Meanwhile, SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) added 3.00% or 0.78 points to end at 26.80 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken A (ST:SEBa) was up 2.14% or 1.65 points to 78.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 0.09% or 0.5 points to trade at 566.5 at the close. Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) added 0.23% or 0.7 points to end at 305.3 and Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb) was up 0.41% or 0.60 points to 147.90.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 403 to 191 and 59 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.55% or 0.26 to $47.67 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.83% or 0.41 to hit $49.57 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.04% or 0.55 to trade at $1342.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.01% to 9.4780, while USD/SEK rose 0.08% to 8.3816.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 94.49.