Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.81%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 2.12% or 12.0 points to trade at 579.0 at the close. Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) added 1.57% or 3.00 points to end at 194.00 and Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) was up 0.56% or 0.21 points to 37.41 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 5.55% or 5.85 points to trade at 99.55 in late trade. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 2.81% or 0.68 points to end at 23.54 and Sandvik AB (ST:SAND) shed 1.91% or 1.75 points to 90.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 332 to 264 and 50 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.98% or 0.87 to $43.04 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.52% or 0.71 to hit $45.88 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.57% or 7.45 to trade at $1310.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.34% to 9.5696, while USD/SEK rose 1.12% to 8.5778.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.76% at 96.00.