Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Consumer Goods, Healthcare and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.64%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 0.42% or 0.6 points to trade at 144.5 at the close. Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) fell 0.08% or 0.1 points to end at 120.6 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) was down 0.15% or 0.40 points to 257.90 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 4.06% or 1.60 points to trade at 37.84 in late trade. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 1.88% or 0.79 points to end at 41.19 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) shed 1.55% or 1.1 points to 69.8.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 484 to 228 and 81 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.06% or 0.03 to $49.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.31% or 0.16 to hit $52.30 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.24% or 15.67 to trade at $1278.27 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.14% to 9.6231, while USD/SEK rose 0.25% to 8.1962.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 93.52.