Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financials, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.94%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 3.66% or 28.8 points to trade at 815.2 at the close. Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) added 3.09% or 3.28 points to end at 109.58 and Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) was up 2.37% or 5.6 points to 242.1 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb), which lost 1.31% or 2.05 points to trade at 154.20 in late trade. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) declined 1.00% or 0.78 points to end at 77.08 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) shed 0.85% or 1.6 points to 181.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 320 to 304 and 58 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.31% or 0.22 to $70.55 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.78% or 0.62 to hit $78.78 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.02% or 0.30 to trade at $1208.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.30% to 10.3247, while USD/SEK fell 0.85% to 8.7948.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.41% at 93.73.