Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Consumer Services and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.11%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Boliden AB (ST:BOL), which rose 1.74% or 4.70 points to trade at 274.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) added 1.70% or 5.1 points to end at 305.3 and Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) was up 1.43% or 3.9 points to 277.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb), which fell 1.68% or 2.9 points to trade at 169.8 at the close. H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) declined 1.53% or 3.2 points to end at 206.6 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) was down 1.37% or 0.55 points to 39.63.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 377 to 321 and 99 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.00% or 0.48 to $48.31 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.08% or 0.56 to hit $52.43 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.17% or 2.23 to trade at $1293.23 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.12% to 9.5317, while USD/SEK fell 0.19% to 8.0786.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 93.22.