Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Technology and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE), which rose 1.57% or 2.50 points to trade at 162.00 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) added 1.22% or 2.50 points to end at 207.10 and Hennes & Mauritz AB, H & M ser. B (ST:HMb) was up 0.93% or 2.3 points to 249.7 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb), which lost 3.10% or 4.50 points to trade at 140.50 in late trade. Svenska Cellulosa AB SCA ser. B (ST:SCAb) declined 2.23% or 5.8 points to end at 254.3 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) shed 2.16% or 3.8 points to 172.4.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 343 to 258 and 52 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 2.18% or 1.06 to $49.75 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.91% or 0.97 to hit $51.84 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.13% or 1.70 to trade at $1268.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.12% to 9.6260, while USD/SEK fell 0.05% to 8.5969.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.12% at 96.22.