Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Technology, Industrials and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.19%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb), which rose 1.70% or 1.30 points to trade at 77.80 at the close. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) added 1.33% or 10.2 points to end at 776.6 and ABB Ltd (ST:ABB) was up 1.13% or 2.4 points to 215.1 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which lost 1.28% or 0.53 points to trade at 40.79 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 1.10% or 7.5 points to end at 671.8 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) shed 1.05% or 2.50 points to 235.90.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 334 to 291 and 50 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 2.46% or 1.73 to $68.64 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.83% or 1.46 to hit $78.28 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.26% or 3.10 to trade at $1207.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.23% to 10.4645, while USD/SEK fell 0.19% to 8.9637.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 94.62.