Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Technology, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 1.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA), which rose 0.56% or 2.4 points to trade at 429.8 at the close. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) added 0.14% or 0.01 points to end at 7.21 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to 217.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which lost 2.69% or 37.5 points to trade at 1358.0 in late trade. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) declined 2.64% or 1.86 points to end at 68.64 and Sandvik AB (ST:SAND) shed 2.64% or 4.15 points to 152.80.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 390 to 231 and 58 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.11% or 0.07 to $65.64 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.51% or 1.13 to hit $73.61 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.41% or 5.20 to trade at $1269.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.52% to 10.3366, while USD/SEK rose 0.32% to 8.9113.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 94.59.