Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.21%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb), which rose 1.61% or 4.4 points to trade at 278.0 at the close. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) added 1.18% or 2.3 points to end at 197.1 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 1.05% or 0.8 points to 81.7 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AB SKF B (ST:SKFb), which lost 2.02% or 3.9 points to trade at 189.2 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 1.70% or 9.5 points to end at 549.0 and Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) shed 1.61% or 0.28 points to 17.13.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 323 to 292 and 65 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.30% or 0.17 to $57.13 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 0.27% or 0.17 to hit $62.36 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.68% or 8.76 to trade at $1273.34 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.41% to 9.9550, while USD/SEK fell 0.02% to 8.3669.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 92.98.