Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Basic Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.42%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 1.34% or 0.31 points to trade at 23.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) added 0.69% or 0.32 points to end at 46.66 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) was up 0.48% or 0.6 points to 126.1 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb), which fell 3.09% or 2.2 points to trade at 69.0 at the close. Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) declined 2.14% or 3.90 points to end at 178.20 and Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) was down 1.83% or 5.2 points to 278.3.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 432 to 275 and 97 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 2.97% or 1.51 to $49.28 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 2.72% or 1.55 to hit $55.45 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.34% or 4.32 to trade at $1277.52 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.01% to 9.5286, while USD/SEK fell 0.24% to 8.1204.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 93.65.