Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Basic Materials and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.89%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 3.93% or 26.0 points to trade at 686.8 at the close. Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb) added 3.09% or 2.5 points to end at 83.5 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) was up 3.03% or 6.60 points to 224.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which lost 0.88% or 1.00 points to trade at 112.60 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 0.29% or 2.0 points to end at 681.7 and Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) shed 0.19% or 0.08 points to 42.80.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 380 to 250 and 51 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 4.88% or 2.43 to $52.21 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 4.22% or 2.48 to hit $61.20 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.31% or 3.95 to trade at $1289.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.26% to 10.2402, while USD/SEK fell 0.44% to 8.8882.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.55% at 94.955.