Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.16% to hit a new 3-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 2.90% or 0.18 points to trade at 6.38 at the close. ABB Ltd (ST:ABB) added 1.48% or 3.1 points to end at 213.2 and Sandvik AB (ST:SAND) was up 1.40% or 2.25 points to 162.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which lost 2.21% or 14.1 points to trade at 624.9 in late trade. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 1.63% or 0.84 points to end at 50.54 and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) shed 1.35% or 2.0 points to 144.6.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 359 to 255 and 62 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.29% or 0.21 to $71.28 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.58% or 0.46 to hit $78.84 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.13% or 1.70 to trade at $1291.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.00% to 10.3017, while USD/SEK rose 0.14% to 8.7465.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 93.53.