Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Services and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.86%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 3.36% or 1.03 points to trade at 31.66 at the close. Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) added 2.61% or 4.50 points to end at 176.80 and Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb) was up 2.33% or 3.26 points to 143.16 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa), which lost 0.77% or 1.6 points to trade at 206.2 in late trade. Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (BS:KINVBs) declined 0.75% or 1.8 points to end at 237.9 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 0.42% or 2.5 points to 591.5.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 486 to 229 and 71 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 2.21% or 1.09 to $50.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 2.19% or 1.15 to hit $53.66 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.02% or 0.22 to trade at $1252.58 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.04% to 9.7816, while USD/SEK fell 0.72% to 8.7421.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.61% at 97.17.