Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Financials, Technology and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.28%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 1.65% or 0.10 points to trade at 6.27 at the close. Meanwhile, Atlas Copco AB Series B (ST:ATCOb) added 1.25% or 4.0 points to end at 328.9 and Atlas Copco AB Class A (ST:ATCOa) was up 1.16% or 4.2 points to 361.4 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA), which fell 2.57% or 2.34 points to trade at 88.66 at the close. Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) declined 1.62% or 1.62 points to end at 98.28 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) was down 1.49% or 1.26 points to 83.12.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 320 to 303 and 49 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.35% or 0.25 to $71.06 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.29% or 0.23 to hit $78.20 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.09% or 1.20 to trade at $1289.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.08% to 10.2735, while USD/SEK rose 0.38% to 8.7184.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 93.38.