Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financials, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 1.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Investor AB ser. B (ST:INVEb), which rose 2.45% or 9.3 points to trade at 388.2 at the close. Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) added 2.18% or 6.9 points to end at 323.9 and Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) was up 2.04% or 7.3 points to 364.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which lost 1.58% or 2.7 points to trade at 165.4 in late trade. Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb) declined 0.38% or 0.5 points to end at 117.0 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 0.17% or 1.0 points to 576.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 408 to 208 and 38 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.75% or 0.46 to $62.09 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.27% or 0.18 to hit $68.02 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.10% or 1.30 to trade at $1319.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.05% to 9.8194, while USD/SEK fell 0.45% to 8.1396.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 91.67.