Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.38%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb), which rose 1.82% or 1.4 points to trade at 79.6 at the close. Meanwhile, Atlas Copco AB Class A (ST:ATCOa) added 1.72% or 4.0 points to end at 233.1 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) was up 1.66% or 11.4 points to 697.4 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nordea Bank Abp (ST:NDASE), which fell 4.31% or 3.85 points to trade at 85.45 at the close. Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) declined 1.79% or 1.6 points to end at 88.8 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) was down 1.36% or 10.0 points to 723.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 324 to 315 and 49 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 2.64% or 1.90 to $70.02 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 1.74% or 1.42 to hit $79.99 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.06% or 0.70 to trade at $1230.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.16% to 10.3257, while USD/SEK rose 0.45% to 8.9477.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 95.05.