Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrials, Consumer Goods and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 1.03% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 8.60% or 2.74 points to trade at 34.59 at the close. Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) added 2.37% or 7.0 points to end at 302.0 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) was up 2.27% or 0.94 points to 42.42 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which lost 8.00% or 76.5 points to trade at 880.0 in late trade. AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) declined 4.55% or 7.9 points to end at 165.9 and ABB Ltd (ST:ABB) shed 2.63% or 5.3 points to 196.1.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 462 to 243 and 78 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 1.85% or 0.87 to $46.05 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 1.72% or 0.85 to hit $48.45 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.47% or 5.85 to trade at $1251.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.50% to 9.6125, while USD/SEK rose 0.26% to 8.2448.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.84.