Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrials, Financials and Basic Materials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 1.04%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Kinnevik, Investment AB ser. B (ST:KINVb), which rose 0.79% or 2.4 points to trade at 304.6 at the close. Meanwhile, Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIb) added 0.63% or 0.6 points to end at 96.1 and H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB B (ST:HMb) was up 0.25% or 0.3 points to 126.3 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb), which fell 3.97% or 5.97 points to trade at 144.28 at the close. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) declined 2.91% or 0.24 points to end at 8.00 and Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa) was down 1.95% or 2.0 points to 100.7.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 300 to 296 and 69 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 1.73% or 1.10 to $62.44 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 1.29% or 0.88 to hit $67.45 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.56% or 7.40 to trade at $1335.90 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.06% to 10.2980, while USD/SEK fell 0.33% to 8.3903.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.29% at 89.86.