Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 1.67%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb), which rose 0.46% or 0.60 points to trade at 130.00 at the close. Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) added 0.38% or 0.70 points to end at 183.00 and SKF, AB ser. B (ST:SKFb) was down 0.14% or 0.2 points to 144.6 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 4.00% or 19.00 points to trade at 456.00 in late trade. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) declined 3.22% or 4.20 points to end at 126.40 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) shed 3.01% or 0.84 points to 27.09.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 293 to 200 and 69 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 1.48% or 0.59 to $39.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.84% or 0.34 to hit $40.13 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 0.28% or 3.40 to trade at $1220.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.35% to 9.2723, while USD/SEK rose 0.43% to 8.2987.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.10% at 96.16.