Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 1.79%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE), which rose 4.16% or 6.60 points to trade at 165.40 at the close. Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) added 3.59% or 10.4 points to end at 299.7 and Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) was up 3.42% or 11.1 points to 335.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which added 0.10% or 0.2 points to trade at 207.9 in late trade. Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) added 0.24% or 0.3 points to end at 125.3 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) gained 0.46% or 0.3 points to 65.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 467 to 240 and 84 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.98% or 0.44 to $45.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.55% or 0.26 to hit $47.78 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.51% or 6.20 to trade at $1220.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.27% to 9.6072, while USD/SEK rose 0.21% to 8.4191.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 95.56.