Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Oil & Gas and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.34% to hit a new 52-week high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Boliden AB (ST:BOL), which rose 9.69% or 24.50 points to trade at 277.40 at the close. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) added 6.88% or 3.60 points to end at 55.95 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) was up 3.04% or 1.13 points to 38.36 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA), which lost 1.33% or 3.9 points to trade at 289.7 in late trade. Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (BS:KINVBs) declined 1.07% or 2.5 points to end at 231.0 and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) shed 1.01% or 0.52 points to 50.98.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 368 to 316 and 77 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 2.04% or 1.08 to $54.08 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 2.18% or 1.21 to hit $56.84 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.08% or 0.95 to trade at $1235.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.07% to 9.4821, while USD/SEK fell 0.01% to 8.9030.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 100.61.