Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Consumer Services, Financials and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 0.48%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 5.06% or 24.60 points to trade at 511.00 at the close. Meanwhile, SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) added 2.44% or 0.71 points to end at 29.76 and Boliden AB (ST:BOL) was up 2.33% or 3.10 points to 135.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Investor AB ser. B (ST:INVEb), which fell 4.77% or 13.6 points to trade at 271.6 at the close. Hennes & Mauritz AB, H & M ser. B (ST:HMb) declined 1.70% or 4.6 points to end at 265.5 and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken A (ST:SEBa) was down 1.51% or 1.15 points to 75.15.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 335 to 227 and 57 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 2.82% or 1.26 to $45.92 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 3.30% or 1.50 to hit $47.02 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 0.86% or 10.85 to trade at $1275.65 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.21% to 9.2994, while USD/SEK fell 0.39% to 8.1278.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.57% at 93.68.