Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Consumer Services and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 1.65% or 1.70 points to trade at 104.60 at the close. Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIBs) added 1.34% or 2.2 points to end at 166.2 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) was up 1.26% or 7.0 points to 561.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which lost 1.79% or 0.45 points to trade at 24.63 in late trade. Nokia Oyj (ST:NOKIA) declined 1.36% or 0.64 points to end at 46.53 and SKF, AB ser. B (ST:SKFb) shed 1.08% or 1.5 points to 137.9.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 312 to 274 and 56 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.94% or 0.87 to $44.03 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.80% or 0.85 to hit $46.25 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.31% or 4.15 to trade at $1327.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.29% to 9.5420, while USD/SEK fell 0.73% to 8.4655.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.33% at 95.22.