Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Financials, Healthcare and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.72%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA), which rose 2.83% or 2.75 points to trade at 100.00 at the close. Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) added 2.70% or 5.3 points to end at 201.9 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) was up 2.52% or 2.8 points to 113.8 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb), which lost 2.00% or 5.5 points to trade at 269.8 in late trade. Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) declined 1.32% or 3.30 points to end at 246.70 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) shed 0.93% or 1.00 points to 106.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 346 to 256 and 63 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.39% or 0.79 to $57.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 1.85% or 1.15 to hit $63.35 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.31% or 3.90 to trade at $1249.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.31% to 9.9575, while USD/SEK fell 0.24% to 8.4651.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 93.94.