Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Financials, Consumer Services and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 1.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb), which rose 2.02% or 1.7 points to trade at 87.0 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) added 1.21% or 6.7 points to end at 562.6 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) was up 0.82% or 0.80 points to 98.54 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA), which lost 8.32% or 8.08 points to trade at 89.06 in late trade. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) declined 1.97% or 0.20 points to end at 9.79 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) shed 1.74% or 3.2 points to 181.2.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 373 to 221 and 66 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 1.72% or 1.05 to $62.24 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 1.43% or 0.93 to hit $66.05 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.36% or 4.70 to trade at $1313.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.04% to 10.0602, while USD/SEK rose 0.10% to 8.1870.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 90.21.