Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Healthcare and Consumer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which rose 1.17% or 10.5 points to trade at 904.5 at the close. Meanwhile, Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) added 0.96% or 1.00 points to end at 105.20 and AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) was up 0.74% or 1.2 points to 163.1 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Boliden AB (ST:BOL), which fell 2.29% or 6.50 points to trade at 276.90 at the close. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 1.78% or 0.74 points to end at 40.76 and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson B (ST:ERICb) was down 1.16% or 0.54 points to 46.02.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 376 to 342 and 82 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.56% or 0.75 to $48.98 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 1.11% or 0.60 to hit $54.87 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.43% or 5.72 to trade at $1326.98 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.09% to 9.5502, while USD/SEK rose 0.70% to 8.0273.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.51% at 92.36.