Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 1.21%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb), which rose 3.76% or 2.88 points to trade at 79.48 at the close. Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) added 2.64% or 5.3 points to end at 206.3 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was up 2.49% or 2.70 points to 111.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which lost 0.66% or 4.8 points to trade at 722.6 in late trade. AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) declined 0.35% or 0.5 points to end at 129.8 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) shed 0.37% or 0.3 points to 69.3.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 421 to 203 and 57 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 4.27% or 2.20 to $53.69 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 4.46% or 2.68 to hit $62.74 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.59% or 7.30 to trade at $1250.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.64% to 10.2882, while USD/SEK rose 0.49% to 9.0327.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 96.665.