Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Financials, Consumer Services and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.13%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa), which rose 1.03% or 2.0 points to trade at 196.9 at the close. Meanwhile, Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) added 0.98% or 1.1 points to end at 113.0 and AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) was up 0.86% or 1.6 points to 187.6 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which fell 7.39% or 1.43 points to trade at 17.92 at the close. Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) declined 2.11% or 4.40 points to end at 204.00 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) was down 1.57% or 0.63 points to 39.58.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 333 to 262 and 72 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.34% or 0.78 to $58.80 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $63.55 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.35% or 4.52 to trade at $1287.68 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.48% to 9.8793, while USD/SEK fell 0.22% to 8.2793.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.39% at 92.68.