Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Technology, Consumer Goods and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 7.04% or 38.0 points to trade at 578.0 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) added 2.56% or 4.70 points to end at 188.30 and Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb) was up 1.15% or 1.60 points to 140.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which lost 2.37% or 2.40 points to trade at 98.70 in late trade. Nokia Oyj (ST:NOKIA) declined 1.83% or 0.92 points to end at 49.38 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken A (ST:SEBa) shed 1.39% or 1.05 points to 74.65.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 326 to 250 and 60 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 1.46% or 0.61 to $41.31 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.12% or 0.49 to hit $43.42 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.51% or 6.75 to trade at $1341.25 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.26% to 9.5701, while USD/SEK fell 0.01% to 8.6284.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.22% at 96.54.