Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which rose 1.69% or 3.6 points to trade at 217.0 at the close. Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) added 1.25% or 0.8 points to end at 64.8 and Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) was up 1.24% or 0.41 points to 33.52 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA), which lost 1.82% or 1.90 points to trade at 102.40 in late trade. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 1.39% or 0.56 points to end at 39.61 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) shed 1.35% or 1.6 points to 116.5.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 396 to 321 and 92 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 0.38% or 0.19 to $49.70 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.13% or 0.07 to hit $55.40 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.14% or 1.80 to trade at $1327.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.02% to 9.5195, while USD/SEK fell 0.33% to 7.9620.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 91.79.