Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 1.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 0.70% or 0.04 points to trade at 6.18 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 0.06% or 0.4 points to end at 644.6 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to 109.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which lost 2.73% or 1.40 points to trade at 49.90 in late trade. Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) declined 2.68% or 6.2 points to end at 225.3 and Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (ST:KINVb) shed 2.52% or 8.2 points to 317.4.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 412 to 205 and 52 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.66% or 0.48 to $71.72 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.52% or 0.41 to hit $79.16 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.09% or 1.20 to trade at $1290.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.27% to 10.2616, while USD/SEK rose 0.93% to 8.7699.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 93.93.