Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Technology, Healthcare and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 1.36%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 6.20% or 6.3 points to trade at 108.8 at the close. Meanwhile, Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) added 3.13% or 5.10 points to end at 167.95 and Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) was up 2.48% or 8.5 points to 351.5 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa), which fell 1.88% or 0.94 points to trade at 49.04 at the close. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) declined 0.60% or 7.5 points to end at 1239.5 and Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) was down 0.36% or 0.04 points to 9.96.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 385 to 215 and 56 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.34% or 0.82 to $60.33 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.99% or 0.64 to hit $63.70 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.47% or 6.20 to trade at $1321.40 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.29% to 10.1837, while USD/SEK rose 0.46% to 8.2671.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.58% at 90.08.