Among the most traded stocks in the OMXS30 index, the home appliance company Electrolux rose 1.7 percent, the fashion giant H&M 1.5 percent, and the measurement technology company Hexagon 1.5 percent.
In the other direction, among others, the cloud service company Sinch was found, down 5.6 percent, the real estate company SBB, minus 4.0 percent, and the defense group Saab, which retreated 3.3 percent.
The European stock exchanges went slightly stronger. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange's Dax index recorded a new high on Friday and has thus recovered the entire customs crisis decline and a little more. The record was broken despite the German economy's slowdown, but investors hope that the incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz will get the economy spinning.
The preliminary trade agreement between the US and the UK was received positively on most stock exchanges last night, although many details remain unclear. The leading indices on US stock exchanges rose yesterday, as did those in Stockholm. In Asia, the development was more mixed ahead of the tariff negotiations between the US and China, which begin in Switzerland on Saturday.
After a few hours of trading on Friday, the development on Wall Street points weakly downward.
The krona recovered some of yesterday's and last night's decline against a generally stronger dollar, but fell back again at the close. One dollar cost 9.71 kronor at the close.
