Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms, Basic Materials and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 0.66%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which rose 3.77% or 1.11 points to trade at 30.56 at the close. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) added 2.17% or 12.50 points to end at 588.00 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was up 2.12% or 1.55 points to 74.75 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (ST:KINVBs), which lost 3.64% or 8.2 points to trade at 217.2 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 0.32% or 1.6 points to end at 494.5 and Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) shed 0.11% or 0.07 points to 64.53.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 335 to 218 and 68 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 0.32% or 0.16 to $49.72 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.34% or 0.17 to hit $49.91 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.15% or 1.85 to trade at $1221.95 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.17% to 9.2659, while USD/SEK fell 0.08% to 8.2882.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.18% at 95.23.