Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 lost 0.62%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 4.31% or 1.50 points to trade at 36.29 at the close. Meanwhile, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB A (ST:SEBa) added 0.97% or 1.00 points to end at 104.30 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) was up 0.74% or 1.3 points to 176.5 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which fell 15.07% or 83.7 points to trade at 471.8 at the close. Atlas Copco AB ser. A (ST:ATCOa) declined 2.10% or 6.4 points to end at 298.4 and Atlas Copco AB ser. B (ST:ATCOb) was down 1.80% or 4.9 points to 267.5.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 410 to 296 and 84 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.64% or 0.31 to $49.06 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.94% or 0.48 to hit $51.45 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.67% or 8.36 to trade at $1257.76 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.08% to 9.5955, while USD/SEK rose 0.70% to 8.2286.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.61% at 93.86.