The rise is broad and most heavyweights on OMXS30 are trading on plus. The best performer is the heat pump manufacturer Nibe, up 2 percent, followed by the mining company Boliden which is up 1.2 percent.
The defense group Saab is the only major company that does not clearly rise, but instead fluctuates around zero.
On Monday, both the Stockholm stock exchange and Wall Street closed cautiously downward. In the US, this was mostly due to a waiting attitude among investors, ahead of two important American inflation messages in the form of a consumer price index (CPI) in the afternoon and a producer price index on Thursday.
The outcome of the inflation statistics will be important for the US central bank's upcoming interest rate decision.
On Monday evening, US President Donald Trump announced that the tariff pause with China will be extended for another 90 days. The news was received positively in Japan, where the Tokyo Nikkei 225 index closed up 2 percent at a new record level.
The Hong Kong Hang Seng index is trading just before closing around zero with a plus tendency after having been slightly negative earlier in the trading day.
A dollar costs 9.63 kronor and a euro 11.19 kronor on Tuesday.
