Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financials, Consumer Services and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA), which rose 0.79% or 0.80 points to trade at 101.80 at the close. Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) added 0.73% or 1.5 points to end at 207.1 and Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb) was up 0.70% or 1.16 points to 168.06 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 3.40% or 0.66 points to trade at 18.74 in late trade. AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) declined 2.09% or 4.0 points to end at 187.6 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 1.38% or 8.0 points to 573.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 419 to 336 and 81 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.17% or 0.09 to $54.39 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.17% or 0.10 to hit $60.59 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.02% or 0.24 to trade at $1277.06 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.21% to 9.7805, while USD/SEK fell 0.18% to 8.3877.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 94.61.