Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.41%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb), which rose 3.01% or 4.30 points to trade at 147.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) added 2.29% or 10.7 points to end at 478.4 and Essity AB B (ST:ESSITYb) was up 1.97% or 4.10 points to 212.60 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which fell 4.38% or 34.0 points to trade at 742.0 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) declined 3.11% or 6.45 points to end at 201.00 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) was down 2.73% or 1.02 points to 36.30.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 341 to 275 and 57 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for December delivery was down 1.14% or 0.69 to $59.98 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 1.03% or 0.73 to hit $69.92 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.46% or 17.90 to trade at $1208.30 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.22% to 10.2718, while USD/SEK rose 0.61% to 9.0743.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 96.83.