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Stock exchange ends week on low note

The Stockholm stock exchange took a nosedive on Friday as fears of a credit crunch gripped the markets.

Published: 9 November 2007 18:12 CET

Leading companies such as Volvo, Sandvik and Ericsson all saw their share prices dip.

A weakened dollar and a credit warning from American bank Wachovia led a downward turn on European markets, but it was the Stockholm exchange that fell hardest.

By close of business, the OMXS index had fallen by 2.5 percent to 362.3.

Most of the major companies on the OMXS index suffered major losses on Friday. Volvo fell by 4.1 percent to 116 kronor, Ericsson shed 3.5 percent to finish on 13.82 kronor and Sandvik dropped by 51 percent to 111 kronor.

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Stockholm Pride is a little different this year: here’s what you need to know 

This week marks the beginning of Pride festivities in the Swedish capital. The tickets sold out immediately, for the partly in-person, partly digital events. 

Published: 2 August 2021 10:33 CEST
Pride parade 2019
There won't be a Pride parade like the one in 2019 on the streets of Stockholm this year. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT

You might have noticed rainbow flags popping up on major buildings in Stockholm, and on buses and trams. Sweden has more Pride festivals per capita than any other country and is the largest Pride celebration in the Nordic region, but the Stockholm event is by far the biggest.  

The Pride Parade, which usually attracts around 50,000 participants in a normal year, will be broadcast digitally from Södra Teatern on August 7th on Stockholm Pride’s website and social media. The two-hour broadcast will be led by tenor and debater Rickard Söderberg.

The two major venues of the festival are Pride House, located this year at the Clarion Hotel Stockholm at Skanstull in Södermalm, and Pride Stage, which is at Södra Teatern near Slussen.

“We are super happy with the layout and think it feels good for us as an organisation to slowly return to normal. There are so many who have longed for it,” chairperson of Stockholm Pride, Vix Herjeryd, told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper.

Tickets are required for all indoor events at Södra Teatern to limit the number of people indoors according to pandemic restrictions. But the entire stage programme will also be streamed on a big screen open air on Mosebacketerassen, which doesn’t require a ticket.  

You can read more about this year’s Pride programme on the Stockholm Pride website (in Swedish). 

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