Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Basic Materials, Industrials and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 1.43%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb), which fell 0.17% or 0.25 points to trade at 143.35 at the close. Meanwhile, Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) fell 0.27% or 1.2 points to end at 449.9 and Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb) was down 0.35% or 3.2 points to 909.2 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Boliden AB (ST:BOL), which fell 5.07% or 14.70 points to trade at 275.10 at the close. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 4.53% or 1.96 points to end at 41.26 and AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) was down 2.84% or 4.8 points to 162.3.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 402 to 220 and 46 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.36% or 1.75 to $72.36 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 3.22% or 2.54 to hit $76.32 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.66% or 8.30 to trade at $1247.10 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.23% to 10.2888, while USD/SEK rose 0.41% to 8.7763.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 94.09.