Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 gained 2.18%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 9.05% or 0.68 points to trade at 8.24 at the close. Meanwhile, ABB Ltd (ST:ABB) added 3.69% or 6.8 points to end at 191.3 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was up 3.25% or 3.20 points to 101.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which fell 0.60% or 7.5 points to trade at 1238.5 at the close. Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) added 1.07% or 0.92 points to end at 86.62 and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) was up 1.08% or 1.3 points to 125.9.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 464 to 171 and 46 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.63% or 0.40 to $63.77 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.72% or 0.49 to hit $68.51 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.87% or 11.60 to trade at $1328.60 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.07% to 10.3079, while USD/SEK rose 0.29% to 8.4261.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.46% at 90.19.