Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 3.78% or 26.5 points to trade at 728.4 at the close. Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) added 0.80% or 0.80 points to end at 100.95 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) was up 0.61% or 0.58 points to 95.32 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which lost 1.79% or 1.90 points to trade at 104.40 in late trade. Atlas Copco AB Class A (ST:ATCOa) declined 1.78% or 4.0 points to end at 221.2 and Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb) shed 1.69% or 1.5 points to 86.1.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 331 to 276 and 64 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 0.86% or 0.53 to $61.14 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 1.05% or 0.76 to hit $71.31 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.10% or 1.20 to trade at $1225.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.55% to 10.2569, while USD/SEK fell 0.46% to 8.9847.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.31% at 96.10.