Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 4.31% or 1.50 points to trade at 36.29 at the close. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) added 0.97% or 1.00 points to end at 104.30 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) was up 0.74% or 1.3 points to 176.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which lost 15.07% or 83.7 points to trade at 471.8 in late trade. Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) declined 2.10% or 6.4 points to end at 298.4 and Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) shed 1.80% or 4.9 points to 267.5.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 410 to 296 and 84 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.74% or 0.36 to $49.11 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.08% or 0.55 to hit $51.52 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.67% or 8.37 to trade at $1257.77 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.07% to 9.5947, while USD/SEK rose 0.69% to 8.2277.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.61% at 93.86.