Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.78%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Boliden AB (ST:BOL), which rose 1.42% or 3.70 points to trade at 263.60 at the close. Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb) added 0.63% or 0.9 points to end at 144.6 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) was up 0.59% or 2.8 points to 475.3 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb), which lost 1.81% or 3.30 points to trade at 179.00 in late trade. Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) declined 1.63% or 1.70 points to end at 102.70 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) shed 1.59% or 1.9 points to 117.7.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 468 to 249 and 82 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.43% or 0.20 to $46.98 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.11% or 0.56 to hit $50.83 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.55% or 7.11 to trade at $1290.01 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.21% to 9.5247, while USD/SEK rose 0.51% to 8.1181.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 93.59.