Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson B (ST:ERICb), which rose 1.25% or 0.72 points to trade at 58.27 at the close. ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) added 0.94% or 1.7 points to end at 182.0 and Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) was up 0.80% or 2.2 points to 278.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb), which lost 1.88% or 4.5 points to trade at 234.4 in late trade. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 1.72% or 0.62 points to end at 35.46 and Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) shed 1.18% or 2.50 points to 209.20.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 377 to 306 and 77 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.17% or 0.08 to $47.78 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $50.56 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.08% or 1.05 to trade at $1248.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.04% to 9.5249, while USD/SEK fell 0.16% to 8.8118.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 99.44.