Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Healthcare and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.13%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 2.59% or 14.8 points to trade at 587.3 at the close. Meanwhile, Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) added 2.07% or 1.8 points to end at 87.6 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) was up 2.06% or 4.60 points to 228.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AB SKF B (ST:SKFb), which fell 4.01% or 7.1 points to trade at 168.8 at the close. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) declined 3.54% or 43.5 points to end at 1186.5 and Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) was down 3.47% or 0.29 points to 7.99.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 376 to 230 and 48 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 2.11% or 1.38 to $63.87 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 1.91% or 1.33 to hit $68.13 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 1.18% or 15.90 to trade at $1326.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.57% to 10.2683, while USD/SEK rose 1.02% to 8.3162.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.55% at 89.45.