Among the winners among the most traded stocks was forestry company SCA, which rose 4.5 percent after an interim report. Boliden was up 4.1 percent after the mining group's share price plunge on Tuesday.
Reporting cloud services company Sinch fell 3.2 percent.
Higher oil prices linked to continued war around the Persian Gulf are looming. The market is also characterized by uncertainty ahead of one of the season's most important temperature gauges from the AI sector: Wednesday evening's quarterly figures from Google owner Alphabet.
The price of North Sea oil (Brent) had risen 3.2 percent to $93.90 per barrel at the close of trading in Stockholm.
