Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Financials, Industrials and Basic Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.63% to hit a new 1-month high.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb), which rose 2.92% or 2.51 points to trade at 88.61 at the close. Meanwhile, Svenska Handelsbanken ser. A (ST:SHBa) added 2.83% or 2.8 points to end at 101.9 and Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) was up 2.37% or 2.35 points to 101.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Getinge AB ser. B (ST:GETIBs), which fell 2.69% or 4.8 points to trade at 173.6 at the close. Hennes & Mauritz AB, H & M ser. B (ST:HMb) declined 0.73% or 1.9 points to end at 258.1 and Svenska Cellulosa AB SCA ser. B (ST:SCAb) was down 0.69% or 1.9 points to 272.5.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 347 to 220 and 67 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.70% or 0.76 to $45.51 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 1.97% or 0.91 to hit $47.17 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 1.05% or 14.05 to trade at $1329.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.01% to 9.4233, while USD/SEK fell 0.18% to 8.4817.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.21% at 96.16.