Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Financials, Basic Materials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 0.76%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa), which rose 3.12% or 3.9 points to trade at 129.0 at the close. Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) added 1.87% or 4.0 points to end at 217.5 and Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) was up 1.73% or 4.8 points to 282.9 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which lost 4.19% or 21.1 points to trade at 481.9 in late trade. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) declined 2.13% or 1.30 points to end at 59.75 and Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) shed 0.76% or 0.28 points to 36.41.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 338 to 254 and 82 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 2.26% or 1.18 to $53.30 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 2.38% or 1.29 to hit $55.45 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.29% or 3.50 to trade at $1205.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.22% to 9.5227, while USD/SEK fell 0.43% to 8.9118.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 100.99.