Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Technology and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 6.34% or 0.62 points to trade at 10.37 at the close. Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) added 1.29% or 4.5 points to end at 353.6 and Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) was up 0.92% or 0.35 points to 38.19 in late trade.
Biggest losers included H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which lost 2.01% or 2.8 points to trade at 138.7 in late trade. Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) declined 1.11% or 1.3 points to end at 115.4 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) shed 0.91% or 0.90 points to 97.74.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 320 to 280 and 58 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 1.65% or 1.02 to $62.70 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 1.22% or 0.80 to hit $66.22 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.10% or 1.30 to trade at $1330.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.40% to 10.0134, while USD/SEK rose 0.04% to 8.1226.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.33% at 89.73.