Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.46%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Hexagon AB ser. B (ST:HEXAb), which rose 4.97% or 22.3 points to trade at 470.9 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) added 2.75% or 5.75 points to end at 214.90 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was up 1.44% or 1.50 points to 105.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which lost 7.74% or 7.0 points to trade at 82.9 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 2.57% or 18.3 points to end at 692.6 and Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) shed 2.48% or 5.8 points to 227.9.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 330 to 284 and 63 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 2.74% or 1.79 to $63.52 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 3.18% or 2.40 to hit $73.07 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.73% or 21.00 to trade at $1233.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.34% to 10.3333, while USD/SEK fell 1.14% to 9.0653.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.73% at 96.19.