Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Healthcare and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 1.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 5.39% or 1.81 points to trade at 35.36 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 2.78% or 15.0 points to end at 554.0 and Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) was up 2.68% or 7.2 points to 276.2 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which lost 0.55% or 0.20 points to trade at 36.08 in late trade. Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) declined 0.54% or 1.2 points to end at 219.6 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) shed 0.47% or 0.50 points to 105.30.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 473 to 206 and 69 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.44% or 0.21 to $47.83 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.04% or 0.02 to hit $50.62 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.28% or 3.45 to trade at $1246.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.23% to 9.5273, while USD/SEK rose 0.30% to 8.8308.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 99.52.