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Bourse joy short-lived

The Stockholm stock exchange took another tumble on Wednesday following a brief respite after the Federal Reserve announced a cut in interest rates.

By close of trading, the OMXS index had shed 3 percent of its value.

“I’m a bit surprised it wasn’t more positive after yesterday’s Fed cuts. If that didn’t help then it’s hard to see what will,” said SEB analyst Esbjörn Lundevall.

Tuesday’s major interest rate cuts came just a week before the next Fed meeting, fuelling speculation that the Federal Reserve is set to announce further cuts before the month is out.

In Stockholm, an optimistic morning was followed by a turbulent afternoon as the OMXS Index closed at 299.3 points.

FINANCE

Stockholm stock exchange suffers worst day of 2018

The Stockholm stock exchange plunged by 2.8 percent on Thursday, making it the worst trading day of 2018.

Stockholm stock exchange suffers worst day of 2018
File photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT
Stock markets across Europe suffered for the third day in a row as the arrest of a top Huawei executive in Canada has raised the spectre of an all-out trade war between the US and China.
 
For the Stockholm Stock Exchange, it meant a blood-red trading day that ended as the worst of the year thus far. The OMXS Stockholm 30 index fell by a combined 2.8 percent.
 
The majority of the companies on the index lost value, with the exception of Ericsson, which seemed to benefit from the news about its Chinese competitor Huawei with a 1.8 percent increase. Airline SAS also saw its stock increase, rising 4.2 percent thanks to sharp declines in oil prices. 
 
Among Thursday’s biggest losers was the mining company Boliden, which suffered a 6.1 percent drop. The stock of the Stockholm-based tech company Hexagon fell 5.6 percent.
 
Meanwhile, the stock of Swedish auto safety equipment manufactor Autoliv fell 6.1 percent on the news that it expects to pay some 1.8 billion kronor in fines as a result of an European Commission investigation into anti-competitive behavior in the EU. 
 
Stockholm was far the only European bourse to have a gloomy Thursday. The CAC index in Paris fell 3.3 percent, the DAX index in Frankfurt dropped 3.5 percent and the London Stock Exchange's FTSE index decreased by 3.2 percent.
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