Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financials, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 0.94%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 3.66% or 28.8 points to trade at 815.2 at the close. Meanwhile, Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) added 3.09% or 3.28 points to end at 109.58 and Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) was up 2.37% or 5.6 points to 242.1 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb), which fell 1.31% or 2.05 points to trade at 154.20 at the close. Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) declined 1.00% or 0.78 points to end at 77.08 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) was down 0.85% or 1.6 points to 181.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 320 to 304 and 58 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 0.34% or 0.24 to $70.53 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.79% or 0.63 to hit $78.77 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.02% or 0.30 to trade at $1208.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.30% to 10.3247, while USD/SEK fell 0.85% to 8.7950.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.41% at 93.73.