Investing.com – Sweden stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrials, Consumer Goods and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Stockholm, the OMX Stockholm 30 declined 1.03% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Stockholm 30 were Fingerprint Cards AB ser. B (ST:FINGb), which rose 8.60% or 2.74 points to trade at 34.59 at the close. Meanwhile, Swedish Match AB (ST:SWMA) added 2.37% or 7.0 points to end at 302.0 and SSAB AB ser. A (ST:SSABa) was up 2.27% or 0.94 points to 42.42 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Autoliv Inc . SDB (ST:ALIVsdb), which fell 8.00% or 76.5 points to trade at 880.0 at the close. AB SKF B (ST:SKFb) declined 4.55% or 7.9 points to end at 165.9 and ABB Ltd (ST:ABB) was down 2.63% or 5.3 points to 196.1.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Stockholm Stock Exchange by 462 to 243 and 78 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was down 1.85% or 0.87 to $46.05 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 1.72% or 0.85 to hit $48.45 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.47% or 5.91 to trade at $1251.41 a troy ounce.
EUR/SEK was up 0.50% to 9.6125, while USD/SEK rose 0.26% to 8.2449.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.84.