Investing.com – Finland stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Basic Materials and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Helsinki, the OMX Helsinki 25 lost 0.76%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Helsinki 25 were Amer Sports Corporation (HE:AMEAS), which rose 5.43% or 1.39 points to trade at 27.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Nordea Bank AB (publ) FDR (HE:NDA1V) added 2.88% or 0.245 points to end at 8.760 and Sampo Oyj A (HE:SAMAS) was up 1.96% or 0.74 points to 38.49 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Outokumpu Oyj (HE:OUT1V), which fell 3.65% or 0.1860 points to trade at 4.9040 at the close. Outotec Oyj (HE:OTE1V) declined 2.99% or 0.118 points to end at 3.824 and UPM-Kymmene Oyj (HE:UPM1V) was down 2.65% or 0.49 points to 18.01.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Helsinki Stock Exchange by 104 to 73 and 19 ended unchanged.
Brent oil for November delivery was down 3.28% or 1.60 to $47.13 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 3.21% or 1.49 to hit $44.86 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.32% or 4.15 to trade at $1312.35 a troy ounce.
EUR/USD was up 0.19% to 1.1164, while EUR/GBP fell 0.28% to 0.8495.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.09% at 95.96.