Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Healthcare, Financials and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 rose 2.20%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Securitas AB ser. B (ST:SECUb), which rose 6.75% or 7.40 points to trade at 117.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Modern Times Group MTG AB ser. B (ST:MTGBs) added 4.54% or 10.1 points to end at 232.8 and Nordea Bank AB (ST:NDA) was up 3.19% or 3.30 points to 106.70 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b), which rose 0.16% or 0.15 points to trade at 96.55 at the close. Lundin Petroleum AB (ST:LUPE) added 0.35% or 0.50 points to end at 142.50 and TeliaSonera AB (ST:TLSN) was up 0.68% or 0.33 points to 49.14.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 355 to 69 and 4 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 3.03% or 1.80 to $57.67 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.55% or 0.98 to hit $62.60 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.22% or 2.60 to trade at $1169.20 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.24% to 9.2553, while USD/SEK rose 0.79% to 8.3537.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.56% at 96.29.