Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms, Consumer Goods and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.60%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which rose 3.45% or 4.6 points to trade at 139.3 at the close. Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) added 0.68% or 1.4 points to end at 199.1 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) was up 0.10% or 0.10 points to 98.66 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which lost 4.34% or 4.80 points to trade at 105.85 in late trade. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) declined 3.41% or 0.24 points to end at 6.71 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) shed 3.11% or 41.0 points to 1279.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 373 to 222 and 57 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.99% or 0.72 to $73.48 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.14% or 0.11 to hit $77.35 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.37% or 4.60 to trade at $1251.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.63% to 10.4379, while USD/SEK rose 0.38% to 9.0133.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 94.91.