Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Financials and Consumer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 0.74%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA), which rose 2.13% or 0.79 points to trade at 37.81 at the close. Meanwhile, Svenska Handelsbanken ser. A (ST:SHBa) added 1.53% or 1.6 points to end at 106.2 and Volvo, AB ser. B (ST:VOLVb) was up 1.40% or 1.27 points to 91.97 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which fell 1.45% or 1.20 points to trade at 81.55 at the close. SKF, AB ser. B (ST:SKFb) declined 0.94% or 1.4 points to end at 146.9 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) was down 0.74% or 0.15 points to 20.10.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 323 to 237 and 57 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 1.54% or 0.77 to $49.08 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.60% or 0.81 to hit $49.81 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.13% or 1.70 to trade at $1270.80 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.35% to 9.3424, while USD/SEK fell 0.08% to 8.2739.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.31% at 93.87.