Several companies have this morning reported interim results, among them the food company Axfood which is up over 1 percent in the opening. The building materials chain Byggmax, which exceeded expectations, rises 4.5 percent.
Among the heavyweights on the OMXS30 index, the defense company Saab performs the strongest, up 2.0 percent. The movements are overall small, even on the minus side, where the private equity company EQT falls the most with 1.4 percent.
The leading stock exchanges in Asia have gone both up and down during the night and morning. The Tokyo Nikkei 225 index closed at minus 0.2 percent while the Hong Kong Hang Seng index is up 1.3 percent.
Wall Street continued on Thursday to defy the customs duty row and all leading indices in the USA rose, and both S&P500 and Nasdaq reached new record levels.
The broad S&P500 index rose 0.3 percent and the technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index increased 0.1 percent. It helped both to new records, according to CNBC.
