After a clear decline on Tuesday, the Stockholm stock exchange has risen and now seems to be ending the trading week with an increase.
The OMXS30 index with the most traded shares is topped by the measurement technology company Hexagon, which yesterday announced that it is selling parts of the business for 30 billion kronor. The share rises by 7 percent.
In yesterday's trading, Saab was a loser among the most traded shares. Before the stock market opening on Friday, the defense group announced that it had received an order for 550 million kronor from a country in Latin America. The purchase concerns the radar system Giraffe 4A. The share rises by 1.7 percent.
Among today's big losers is the pharmaceutical company Bioarctic, which plummets 12 percent due to a sell signal from Nordea.
In Asia, the Tokyo stock exchange rose after Japan and the USA agreed on a new customs agreement. The Nikkei 225 index rose by 1.0 percent.
In the afternoon, American employment figures will be released, which may be decisive for how the American Federal Reserve acts at the upcoming interest rate decision. The preliminary assessment is that 75,000 new jobs were created in August, which would be in line with the weak development in recent months. This could then become a factor for the Federal Reserve to lower the interest rate to get the American economy going.
