The Stockholm stock exchange opens weakly upwards, with the OMXS index up 0.4 percent at the opening. Above all, it is the banking sector that drives the development after Handelsbanken released new quarterly figures during the morning. Handelsbanken rises 5.3 percent, simultaneously pulling its sector colleagues SEB, up 2.4 percent, and Swedbank, 2.2 percent.
In the opposite direction, the live casino company Evolution is plummeting 14 percent on the morning's quarterly report. Among other losers, a quartet of companies stands out: SSAB, Sandvik, Atlas Copco, as well as Alfa Laval. All four are traded today without the right to dividend and are therefore declining. The decline is largest in Alfa Laval with a fall of 2.0 percent.
