Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.95%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE), which rose 5.46% or 9.00 points to trade at 173.80 at the close. Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb) added 2.73% or 3.60 points to end at 135.50 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) was up 2.59% or 4.4 points to 174.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 2.86% or 2.35 points to trade at 79.95 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 1.90% or 9.4 points to end at 486.2 and Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIBs) shed 1.81% or 2.6 points to 141.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 329 to 282 and 56 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 8.58% or 3.88 to $49.11 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 8.83% or 4.18 to hit $51.50 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 1.28% or 15.25 to trade at $1175.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.18% to 9.7894, while USD/SEK rose 0.84% to 9.2524.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.71% at 101.70.