Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Services and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb), which rose 2.41% or 3.35 points to trade at 142.40 at the close. Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb) added 0.96% or 1.53 points to end at 160.28 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was up 0.87% or 0.95 points to 110.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which lost 2.92% or 4.2 points to trade at 139.9 in late trade. Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) declined 2.60% or 1.12 points to end at 42.02 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) shed 1.06% or 2.50 points to 233.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 333 to 275 and 59 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 4.19% or 2.96 to $67.75 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 3.35% or 2.64 to hit $76.15 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.08% or 1.00 to trade at $1303.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.60% to 10.2062, while USD/SEK fell 0.13% to 8.7494.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 94.10.