Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financials, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 1.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 8.05% or 35.40 points to trade at 475.00 at the close. Svenska Cellulosa AB SCA ser. B (ST:SCAb) added 1.36% or 3.4 points to end at 252.7 and Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) was up 0.77% or 1.6 points to 210.3 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken A (ST:SEBa), which lost 7.86% or 6.95 points to trade at 81.50 in late trade. Svenska Handelsbanken ser. A (ST:SHBa) declined 3.52% or 3.8 points to end at 104.1 and Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) shed 2.33% or 4.2 points to 175.9.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 265 to 255 and 65 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 3.21% or 1.33 to $40.12 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.54% or 1.06 to hit $40.73 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 1.98% or 24.70 to trade at $1223.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.12% to 9.2408, while USD/SEK rose 0.49% to 8.2706.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.51% at 96.16.