Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Basic Materials and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.56%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 1.07% or 0.85 points to trade at 80.20 at the close. ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) added 0.96% or 1.6 points to end at 168.5 and Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) was up 0.77% or 0.36 points to 46.97 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb), which lost 2.07% or 2.03 points to trade at 96.17 in late trade. Investor AB ser. B (ST:INVEb) declined 1.57% or 4.9 points to end at 307.6 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) shed 1.35% or 0.45 points to 32.95.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 335 to 275 and 52 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 0.31% or 0.14 to $45.67 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.45% or 0.21 to hit $46.74 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.31% or 3.75 to trade at $1228.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.20% to 9.8332, while USD/SEK fell 0.02% to 9.1869.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 100.27.