Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Stockholm Industrials, Stockholm Oil & Gas and Stockholm Basic Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 1.00%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Boliden AB (ST:BOL), which rose 3.59% or 11.80 points to trade at 340.10 at the close. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) added 3.19% or 4.90 points to end at 158.50 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) was up 2.38% or 35.00 points to 1,507.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sinch AB (ST:SINCH), which fell 3.08% or 0.62 points to trade at 19.54 in late trade. Samhallsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden AB (ST:SBBb) declined 2.67% or 0.10 points to end at 3.64 and Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb) down 2.27% or 3.90 points to 168.20.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones by 391 to 380 and 71 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
Shares in Sinch AB (ST:SINCH) fell to 52-week lows; losing 3.08% or 0.62 to 19.54.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 3.04% or 2.07 to $70.17 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 2.74% or 1.97 to hit $73.80 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.43% or 11.31 to trade at $2,669.81 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.32% to 11.57, while USD/SEK rose 0.12% to 11.00.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.19% at 106.22.