Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Financials, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.42%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA), which rose 3.71% or 17.1 points to trade at 477.8 at the close. Meanwhile, Alfa Laval AB (ST:ALFA) added 2.55% or 5.2 points to end at 209.2 and Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) was up 2.43% or 5.6 points to 236.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa), which fell 7.78% or 12.0 points to trade at 142.2 at the close. Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) declined 6.94% or 6.10 points to end at 81.80 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) was down 6.37% or 6.73 points to 98.97.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 354 to 265 and 64 ended unchanged.
Shares in Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) fell to 5-year lows; falling 7.78% or 12.0 to 142.2.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.12% or 0.07 to $59.34 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.07% or 0.05 to hit $67.19 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 1.58% or 20.75 to trade at $1296.15 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.02% to 10.4283, while USD/SEK rose 0.07% to 9.2843.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 96.718.