Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Healthcare and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.13%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 2.59% or 14.8 points to trade at 587.3 at the close. Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) added 2.07% or 1.8 points to end at 87.6 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) was up 2.06% or 4.60 points to 228.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AB SKF B (ST:SKFb), which lost 4.01% or 7.1 points to trade at 168.8 in late trade. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) declined 3.54% or 43.5 points to end at 1186.5 and Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) shed 3.47% or 0.29 points to 7.99.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 376 to 230 and 48 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 2.11% or 1.38 to $63.87 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 1.90% or 1.32 to hit $68.14 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 1.18% or 15.90 to trade at $1326.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.57% to 10.2683, while USD/SEK rose 1.02% to 8.3162.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.55% at 89.45.