Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 2.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 9.05% or 0.68 points to trade at 8.24 at the close. ABB Ltd (ST:ABB) added 3.69% or 6.8 points to end at 191.3 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was up 3.25% or 3.20 points to 101.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which lost 0.60% or 7.5 points to trade at 1238.5 in late trade. Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) added 1.07% or 0.92 points to end at 86.62 and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) gained 1.08% or 1.3 points to 125.9.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 464 to 171 and 46 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.58% or 0.37 to $63.74 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.66% or 0.45 to hit $68.47 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.87% or 11.60 to trade at $1328.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.07% to 10.3079, while USD/SEK rose 0.28% to 8.4258.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.46% at 90.19.