Investing.com – Sweden equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb), which rose 2.16% or 6.0 points to trade at 283.8 at the close. Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) added 1.30% or 1.15 points to end at 89.90 and Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) was up 0.96% or 0.29 points to 30.42 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE), which lost 2.16% or 3.50 points to trade at 158.80 in late trade. Sandvik AB (ST:SAND) declined 1.19% or 1.60 points to end at 133.10 and Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) shed 1.09% or 1.20 points to 108.70.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 338 to 337 and 106 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.90% or 1.32 to $44.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 2.93% or 1.41 to hit $46.70 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 1.06% or 12.99 to trade at $1210.31 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.28% to 9.6162, while USD/SEK fell 0.07% to 8.4362.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 95.82.