Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Oil & Gas and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.33%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 4.65% or 1.65 points to trade at 37.14 at the close. Meanwhile, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) added 1.58% or 0.92 points to end at 59.17 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) was up 1.09% or 6.0 points to 555.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which fell 3.86% or 1.37 points to trade at 34.09 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) declined 2.67% or 7.30 points to end at 265.70 and Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) was down 1.87% or 3.1 points to 163.1.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 484 to 204 and 65 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.44% or 0.21 to $47.76 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.10% or 0.05 to hit $50.97 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.46% or 5.75 to trade at $1254.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.37% to 9.5448, while USD/SEK fell 0.40% to 8.7745.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.68% at 98.91.