Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.58%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AB SKF B (ST:SKFb), which rose 1.14% or 1.9 points to trade at 168.2 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 0.79% or 4.0 points to end at 512.0 and Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) was up 0.76% or 0.50 points to 66.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb), which lost 1.94% or 3.3 points to trade at 167.2 in late trade. Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) declined 1.72% or 3.9 points to end at 223.3 and Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) shed 1.41% or 2.80 points to 196.30.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 312 to 248 and 90 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was down 0.21% or 0.11 to $53.15 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.16% or 0.09 to hit $56.37 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 1.49% or 17.35 to trade at $1182.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.13% to 9.5410, while USD/SEK fell 1.12% to 9.0069.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.97% at 101.50.