Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Healthcare, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 2.40% or 2.40 points to trade at 102.30 at the close. SKF, AB ser. B (ST:SKFb) added 1.97% or 2.8 points to end at 144.8 and Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) was up 1.62% or 3.20 points to 200.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Svenska Cellulosa AB SCA ser. B (ST:SCAb), which lost 2.17% or 5.7 points to trade at 256.5 in late trade. Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) declined 1.05% or 3.3 points to end at 311.9 and Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) shed 0.30% or 0.25 points to 83.45.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 362 to 227 and 68 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 1.19% or 0.53 to $45.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.50% or 0.70 to hit $47.22 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.45% or 6.05 to trade at $1324.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.23% to 9.6218, while USD/SEK fell 0.06% to 8.5922.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 95.56.