Investing.com – Sweden stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Financials, Basic Materials and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 added 0.76%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Svenska Handelsbanken AB A (ST:SHBa), which rose 3.12% or 3.9 points to trade at 129.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Swedbank AB ser A (ST:SWEDa) added 1.87% or 4.0 points to end at 217.5 and Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) was up 1.73% or 4.8 points to 282.9 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which fell 4.19% or 21.1 points to trade at 481.9 at the close. Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) declined 2.13% or 1.30 points to end at 59.75 and Telia Company AB (ST:TELIA) was down 0.76% or 0.28 points to 36.41.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 338 to 254 and 82 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was up 2.21% or 1.15 to $53.27 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 2.31% or 1.25 to hit $55.41 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.42% or 5.00 to trade at $1206.50 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.22% to 9.5226, while USD/SEK fell 0.47% to 8.9078.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.19% at 100.91.