Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.67% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 7.10% or 2.38 points to trade at 35.90 at the close. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) added 3.67% or 1.34 points to end at 37.89 and Sandvik AB (ST:SAND) was up 2.44% or 3.40 points to 142.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which lost 0.96% or 2.0 points to trade at 206.6 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 0.82% or 5.0 points to end at 602.0 and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) shed 0.28% or 0.18 points to 63.52.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 411 to 304 and 77 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 0.96% or 0.44 to $46.08 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 1.17% or 0.56 to hit $48.42 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.74% or 9.52 to trade at $1269.98 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.15% to 9.7546, while USD/SEK rose 0.10% to 8.7195.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.38% at 97.32.