Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Financials, Technology and Basic Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.77%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa), which rose 4.89% or 4.40 points to trade at 94.44 at the close. Meanwhile, Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) added 3.09% or 19.0 points to end at 633.8 and Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) was up 2.33% or 3.4 points to 149.1 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which fell 1.20% or 9.2 points to trade at 754.3 at the close. Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) declined 0.91% or 1.20 points to end at 130.25 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) was down 0.48% or 1.40 points to 288.80.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 356 to 271 and 62 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.05% or 0.03 to $60.23 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.30% or 0.20 to hit $66.72 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.64% or 9.05 to trade at $1415.75 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.08% to 10.5620, while USD/SEK fell 0.08% to 9.3734.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 96.465.