Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Telecoms and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 0.47%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Svenska Handelsbanken ser. A (ST:SHBa), which rose 1.50% or 1.6 points to trade at 108.4 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) added 1.46% or 2.70 points to end at 187.10 and Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) was up 1.37% or 3.3 points to 244.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 2.46% or 2.80 points to trade at 110.80 in late trade. Hennes & Mauritz AB, H & M ser. B (ST:HMb) declined 2.31% or 6.2 points to end at 262.3 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 0.62% or 3.5 points to 559.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 373 to 205 and 70 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.21% or 0.10 to $47.43 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 0.18% or 0.09 to hit $49.58 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.03% or 0.45 to trade at $1325.05 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.07% to 9.4945, while USD/SEK rose 0.52% to 8.4512.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.45% at 95.11.