Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Goods and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were ABB Ltd (ST:ABB), which rose 0.58% or 1.1 points to trade at 189.3 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 0.50% or 2.4 points to end at 483.2 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) was up 0.50% or 1.10 points to 221.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 6.76% or 2.36 points to trade at 32.57 in late trade. Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) declined 1.94% or 5.5 points to end at 277.8 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) shed 1.89% or 16.5 points to 858.5.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 457 to 273 and 71 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.32% or 0.64 to $49.30 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 1.46% or 0.78 to hit $54.16 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.01% or 0.14 to trade at $1344.64 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.01% to 9.4949, while USD/SEK fell 0.19% to 7.9539.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 92.02.