Investing.com – Sweden equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Basic Materials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb), which rose 2.30% or 2.86 points to trade at 127.16 at the close. Boliden AB (ST:BOL) added 2.07% or 5.70 points to end at 281.50 and Skanska AB ser. B (ST:SKAb) was up 2.04% or 4.10 points to 205.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA), which lost 2.44% or 0.89 points to trade at 35.59 in late trade. Svenska Cellulosa SCA AB B (ST:SCAb) declined 1.73% or 4.9 points to end at 277.8 and AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN) shed 0.73% or 4.0 points to 547.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 348 to 339 and 77 ended unchanged on the Stockholm Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 1.09% or 0.56 to $51.71 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.94% or 0.51 to hit $54.87 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.35% or 4.35 to trade at $1252.85 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.06% to 9.5953, while USD/SEK rose 0.19% to 9.0102.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 100.58.