Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Healthcare, Industrials and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.87%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which rose 1.05% or 1.20 points to trade at 115.55 at the close. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) added 0.85% or 0.34 points to end at 40.32 and Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) was up 0.36% or 1.7 points to 477.7 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Atlas Copco AB Series B (ST:ATCOb), which lost 3.42% or 8.1 points to trade at 227.4 in late trade. Atlas Copco AB Class A (ST:ATCOa) declined 2.81% or 7.2 points to end at 246.8 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) shed 2.58% or 6.00 points to 226.30.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 397 to 218 and 67 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 0.49% or 0.33 to $67.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.12% or 0.09 to hit $76.41 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.15% or 1.80 to trade at $1202.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.73% to 10.5109, while USD/SEK fell 0.25% to 9.0851.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.35% at 95.32.