Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 1.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 4.00% or 3.4 points to trade at 88.9 at the close. Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) added 2.46% or 2.65 points to end at 110.55 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 2.38% or 2.3 points to 100.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which lost 0.29% or 0.4 points to trade at 132.5 in late trade. Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) declined 0.14% or 0.6 points to end at 417.4 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 0.12% or 0.8 points to 647.6.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 358 to 255 and 58 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.64% or 0.43 to $66.61 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.21% or 0.94 to hit $76.62 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.24% or 3.10 to trade at $1297.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.05% to 10.3002, while USD/SEK rose 0.10% to 8.8219.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 94.07.