Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 1.82% or 1.4 points to trade at 79.6 at the close. Atlas Copco AB Class A (ST:ATCOa) added 1.72% or 4.0 points to end at 233.1 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) was up 1.66% or 11.4 points to 697.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nordea Bank Abp (ST:NDASE), which lost 4.31% or 3.85 points to trade at 85.45 in late trade. Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) declined 1.79% or 1.6 points to end at 88.8 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) shed 1.36% or 10.0 points to 723.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 324 to 315 and 49 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was down 2.64% or 1.90 to $70.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 1.74% or 1.42 to hit $79.99 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.04% or 0.50 to trade at $1230.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.16% to 10.3251, while USD/SEK rose 0.44% to 8.9468.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 95.04.