Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.69%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which rose 2.96% or 4.0 points to trade at 139.0 at the close. ABB Ltd (ST:ABB) added 2.05% or 4.1 points to end at 201.7 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) was up 1.94% or 5.50 points to 288.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 2.82% or 0.28 points to trade at 9.70 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 2.37% or 13.0 points to end at 534.8 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) shed 0.88% or 0.84 points to 94.42.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 370 to 250 and 36 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 0.03% or 0.02 to $60.58 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.76% or 0.49 to hit $63.87 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.31% or 4.20 to trade at $1353.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.31% to 9.9338, while USD/SEK rose 0.05% to 7.9592.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 88.69.