Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Healthcare, Consumer Goods and Technology sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 1.00%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 4.24% or 26.2 points to trade at 643.7 at the close. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) added 2.13% or 19.4 points to end at 928.6 and Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) was up 2.06% or 4.0 points to 195.6 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa), which lost 0.10% or 0.2 points to trade at 193.8 in late trade. Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) added 0.06% or 0.06 points to end at 99.06 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) gained 0.12% or 0.10 points to 84.84.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 370 to 244 and 61 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 1.22% or 0.86 to $69.52 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.01% or 0.01 to hit $73.41 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.27% or 3.40 to trade at $1247.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.43% to 10.3438, while USD/SEK rose 0.29% to 8.8480.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 94.44.