Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Technology and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 1.19% or 0.19 points to trade at 16.46 at the close. Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) added 0.85% or 1.0 points to end at 118.4 and Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) was up 0.79% or 0.80 points to 102.45 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which lost 7.53% or 7.91 points to trade at 97.14 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 1.35% or 7.9 points to end at 575.9 and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) shed 1.23% or 0.69 points to 55.33.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 351 to 266 and 42 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.49% or 0.31 to $63.27 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.10% or 0.07 to hit $68.89 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.36% or 4.70 to trade at $1318.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.25% to 9.8006, while USD/SEK fell 0.46% to 8.1929.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 92.01.