Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.82%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which rose 0.51% or 0.70 points to trade at 137.25 at the close. Meanwhile, Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson Class B (ST:ERICb) added 0.20% or 0.16 points to end at 78.64 and Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (ST:KINVb) was up 0.16% or 0.4 points to 256.6 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which fell 2.43% or 15.4 points to trade at 619.0 at the close. Sandvik AB (ST:SAND) declined 1.98% or 2.75 points to end at 136.00 and Electrolux, AB ser. B (ST:ELUXb) was down 1.88% or 4.2 points to 218.9.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 389 to 257 and 51 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was down 2.80% or 1.55 to $53.80 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.59% or 0.95 to hit $58.97 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 1.92% or 29.00 to trade at $1537.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.04% to 10.7151, while USD/SEK fell 0.60% to 9.6182.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.49% at 97.588.