Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Industrials, Consumer Goods and Basic Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.87% to hit a new 6-months high.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA), which rose 2.75% or 6.0 points to trade at 224.1 at the close. Meanwhile, AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) added 2.32% or 3.9 points to end at 171.9 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) was up 2.26% or 17.0 points to 769.8 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which fell 0.41% or 3.0 points to trade at 737.2 at the close. Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb) declined 0.16% or 0.25 points to end at 159.90 and Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) was down 0.10% or 0.04 points to 41.19.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 396 to 231 and 65 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.36% or 0.23 to $63.81 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 1.03% or 0.73 to hit $71.56 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.04% or 0.55 to trade at $1293.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.19% to 10.4691, while USD/SEK fell 0.21% to 9.2684.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 96.575.