Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Telecoms, Healthcare and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 1.38% to hit a new 52-week low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb), which rose 6.64% or 9.60 points to trade at 154.20 at the close. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) added 0.95% or 6.8 points to end at 726.2 and Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) was up 0.36% or 0.50 points to 137.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which lost 4.71% or 1.74 points to trade at 35.22 in late trade. Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) declined 4.39% or 7.9 points to end at 172.2 and Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) shed 2.66% or 1.08 points to 39.56.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 412 to 239 and 41 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 0.50% or 0.34 to $67.67 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 0.72% or 0.55 to hit $77.44 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.85% or 10.50 to trade at $1239.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.29% to 10.3952, while USD/SEK rose 0.09% to 9.1204.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.29% at 96.18.