Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Financials and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 4.69% or 1.64 points to trade at 36.64 at the close. Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) added 2.85% or 5.10 points to end at 184.10 and Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) was up 2.36% or 5.6 points to 242.6 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa), which lost 4.24% or 5.4 points to trade at 121.9 in late trade. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) declined 4.01% or 9.5 points to end at 227.7 and AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) shed 2.59% or 4.7 points to 176.6.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 368 to 292 and 99 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 1.51% or 0.75 to $50.26 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.97% or 0.51 to hit $53.05 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.44% or 5.55 to trade at $1248.15 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.10% to 9.5563, while USD/SEK rose 0.47% to 8.9081.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 99.99.