Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.68%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 1.33% or 7.0 points to trade at 534.0 at the close. Getinge AB ser. B (BS:GETIBs) added 0.85% or 1.3 points to end at 154.6 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was down 0.06% or 0.05 points to 80.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 2.52% or 1.23 points to trade at 47.63 in late trade. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 2.52% or 0.94 points to end at 36.41 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) shed 1.86% or 3.3 points to 174.2.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 391 to 294 and 72 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.75% or 0.94 to $52.89 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 1.74% or 0.98 to hit $55.38 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 1.08% or 13.45 to trade at $1236.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.10% to 9.5346, while USD/SEK rose 0.20% to 9.0669.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.34% at 102.09.