Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Technology, Oil & Gas and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson B (ST:ERICb), which rose 1.93% or 1.17 points to trade at 61.77 at the close. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) added 1.52% or 1.50 points to end at 100.50 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was up 1.51% or 1.10 points to 74.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hennes & Mauritz AB, H & M ser. B (ST:HMb), which lost 2.85% or 7.1 points to trade at 242.0 in late trade. Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) declined 1.18% or 1.6 points to end at 134.5 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) shed 0.44% or 0.90 points to 201.60.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 338 to 256 and 53 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 0.46% or 0.22 to $48.05 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 0.34% or 0.17 to hit $49.98 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.21% or 2.75 to trade at $1323.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.13% to 9.6348, while USD/SEK rose 0.03% to 8.5768.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.09% at 95.34.