Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.26% to hit a new 1-month high.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 1.98% or 2.2 points to trade at 110.9 at the close. Meanwhile, Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) added 1.60% or 5.0 points to end at 317.8 and Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) was up 1.43% or 2.40 points to 170.35 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which fell 3.02% or 1.48 points to trade at 47.56 at the close. AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) declined 0.84% or 4.7 points to end at 554.8 and Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) was down 0.64% or 0.62 points to 96.70.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 355 to 253 and 57 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was up 2.79% or 1.68 to $61.80 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 2.66% or 1.69 to hit $65.30 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.26% or 3.40 to trade at $1325.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.25% to 10.1477, while USD/SEK fell 0.39% to 8.2306.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 89.97.