Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Healthcare sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 0.34%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 2.67% or 3.8 points to trade at 146.3 at the close. Meanwhile, Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) added 2.19% or 3.60 points to end at 167.70 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) was up 1.83% or 11.8 points to 656.8 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb), which fell 1.19% or 1.06 points to trade at 88.10 at the close. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) declined 1.13% or 0.98 points to end at 85.92 and Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) was down 0.78% or 3.1 points to 392.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 353 to 271 and 64 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 0.40% or 0.24 to $59.19 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.47% or 0.31 to hit $65.36 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.05% or 0.65 to trade at $1412.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.06% to 10.5519, while USD/SEK rose 0.04% to 9.2793.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 95.697.