Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Financials, Oil & Gas and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.52%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 2.58% or 1.25 points to trade at 49.65 at the close. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) added 1.66% or 0.62 points to end at 38.02 and Sandvik AB (ST:SAND) was up 1.46% or 1.90 points to 131.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA), which lost 6.32% or 6.90 points to trade at 102.20 in late trade. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) declined 1.19% or 11.0 points to end at 916.5 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) shed 1.03% or 1.3 points to 125.2.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 369 to 310 and 74 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.10% or 0.05 to $48.70 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.12% or 0.06 to hit $51.68 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.12% or 1.45 to trade at $1228.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.18% to 9.4767, while USD/SEK rose 0.03% to 8.8222.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 100.12.