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 1.78%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Sandvik AB (ST:SAND), which rose 4.23% or 6.45 points to trade at 159.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) added 4.06% or 6.35 points to end at 162.80 and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) was up 3.75% or 2.51 points to 69.41 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb), which fell 2.67% or 3.7 points to trade at 133.5 at the close. Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) declined 1.92% or 18.0 points to end at 921.8 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was up 0.05% or 0.05 points to 105.30.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 432 to 182 and 61 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.67% or 0.49 to $73.94 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 2.04% or 1.58 to hit $79.19 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.32% or 4.00 to trade at $1255.00 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.21% to 10.4565, while USD/SEK fell 0.73% to 8.9540.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.76% at 94.28.