Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 fell 0.68%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were AstraZeneca PLC (ST:AZN), which rose 1.33% or 7.0 points to trade at 534.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Getinge AB ser. B (BS:GETIBs) added 0.85% or 1.3 points to end at 154.6 and Tele2 AB (ST:TEL2b) was down 0.06% or 0.05 points to 80.95 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which fell 2.52% or 1.23 points to trade at 47.63 at the close. SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) declined 2.52% or 0.94 points to end at 36.41 and ASSA ABLOY AB ser. B (ST:ASSAb) was down 1.86% or 3.3 points to 174.2.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 391 to 294 and 72 ended unchanged.
Shares in Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb) fell to 52-week lows; losing 2.52% or 1.23 to 47.63.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.75% or 0.94 to $52.89 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 1.74% or 0.98 to hit $55.38 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 1.08% or 13.45 to trade at $1236.55 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was down 0.10% to 9.5346, while USD/SEK rose 0.20% to 9.0670.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.34% at 102.09.