Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 1.26%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 4.00% or 3.4 points to trade at 88.9 at the close. Meanwhile, Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) added 2.46% or 2.65 points to end at 110.55 and Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) was up 2.38% or 2.3 points to 100.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which fell 0.29% or 0.4 points to trade at 132.5 at the close. Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) declined 0.14% or 0.6 points to end at 417.4 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) was down 0.12% or 0.8 points to 647.6.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 358 to 255 and 58 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.64% or 0.43 to $66.61 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.22% or 0.95 to hit $76.61 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.24% or 3.10 to trade at $1297.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.05% to 10.3002, while USD/SEK rose 0.09% to 8.8209.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 94.06.