Among the most traded stocks in the OMXS30 index, the game developer Evolution and the engineering group Sandvik are rising by 1.8 and 1.7 percent, respectively.
The share of the construction group Skanska is unchanged after the news of an additional contract for a biotechnology facility in Charlottsville, USA, valued at 1.2 billion kronor.
During the night's trading, leading exchanges in Asia have gone up after Friday's mixed closing on Wall Street, where the technology-heavy Nasdaq rose but the S&P500 closed at an unchanged price.
The Stockholm stock exchange ended last week with a weak rise of 0.1 percent, which gives a stock market rise since the turn of the year of 3.0 percent.
The krona is strengthening slightly against the dollar and is trading at around 9.32 kronor per dollar. Against the euro, it is also up a few öre compared to the price on Friday afternoon, to 10.93 kronor per euro.
