Merz's defeat struck like a bomb – and the stock exchanges plummeted. But already in the afternoon, a new vote was held, where he was approved. The Stockholm Stock Exchange recovered somewhat, but the broad OMXS index still closed at minus 1.2 percent.
Among the most traded shares in the OMXS30 index, heavy machinery companies such as Alfa Laval and Atlas Copco fell, down 3.3 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively. Only two shares in the index rose: telecom companies Telia and Tele2, up 1.1 percent and 0.9 percent, respectively.
Outside OMXS30, the real estate company Castellum 6.3 percent after a report for the first quarter showed that revenues and management results were pressed down.
On the customs front, US President Donald Trump announced that new tariffs on imports to the US will be introduced within two weeks. At the same time, information has leaked about the EU's response to Trump's tariffs, where it is said that the union plans tariffs on goods worth 100 billion euros if no agreement is reached with the US.
The market has otherwise had a lot of focus on the interest rate announcements that central banks will deliver, including the American Federal Reserve on Wednesday and the Swedish Riksbank on Thursday.
On the leading European stock exchanges, it mostly pointed downwards. The Frankfurt and Paris stock exchanges fell, although less than the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The London Stock Exchange closed near zero.
