Among the heavyweights, telecoms manufacturer Ericsson rose 6.7 percent and mining group Boliden 4.4 percent. At the other end were pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, which fell 7.4 percent, and defence group Saab, down 3.8 percent.
The trend was also upward in Paris and Frankfurt, and flat in London. Early trading on Wall Street also pointed upwards.
After a sharp rise on Wednesday, the oil price has fallen back slightly to $76.7 per barrel - despite another night of American bombings in Iran, Iranian attacks on neighboring countries around the Persian Gulf and a virtual halt to civilian ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
The Stockholm Stock Exchange fell 2.1 percent on Wednesday. Since the beginning of the year, the OMXS index has risen 5.3 percent.
