Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.09% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA), which rose 1.66% or 0.62 points to trade at 37.94 at the close. Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) added 1.41% or 1.50 points to end at 108.00 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) was up 1.26% or 7.0 points to 562.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Boliden AB (ST:BOL), which lost 2.63% or 7.50 points to trade at 278.20 in late trade. Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) declined 1.79% or 3.70 points to end at 203.50 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) shed 1.74% or 18.0 points to 1019.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 515 to 234 and 70 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 0.66% or 0.37 to $55.33 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.53% or 0.33 to hit $61.88 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.36% or 4.66 to trade at $1278.24 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.55% to 9.9573, while USD/SEK rose 0.54% to 8.4397.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 93.74.