At the close, heat pump maker Nibe was the top performer on the OMXS30 index and was the most-traded stock, up 2 percent. This was followed by venture capital firm EQT and measurement technology company Hexagon, up 1.8 and 1.3 percent respectively.
At the bottom was the defense group Saab, which fell 1 percent. Saab's decline follows a broader sell-off in European defense stocks amid talks of a possible peace agreement in Ukraine.
The big banks also had a dismal day, with Handelsbanken, Nordea and Swedbank down 0.2–0.5 percent. Only SEB managed to finish in positive territory, up 0.4 percent.
At the close in Stockholm, the stock exchanges in Frankfurt, London and Paris were slightly up. On Wall Street, the three major indices were more clearly down.
The price of silver hit a new record high on Monday morning, briefly trading above $80 per ounce, before falling sharply back to $71–72 per ounce.
One US dollar cost 9.19 kronor and the euro traded at 10.81 kronor.
