** Swedish shares seen opening lower on Thursday in line with European
markets
** Asian shares broke support and caved to a four-month low on Thursday, as
concerns grew that the Sino-U.S. trade conflict was fast morphing into a
prolonged technology cold war between the world's two largest economies
** Tele2 agrees sale of Kazakhstan JV, says net proceeds after deducting
existing earn-out liability will be $169 million urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN22Y0RK
** Essity ESSITYa.ST invests about SEK 400 mln in alternative fiber
technology, sees annual global hygiene and health market growth around 3%
through 2023 urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN22Z08Q
** Sandvik SAND.ST CEO tells Dagens Industri he won't be "very long" at
company urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N22Z0TL
** Veoneer VNE.N announces upsizing and pricing of common stock and
convertible senior notes offerings urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN22Y0LG
** Kepler Cheuvreux raises its recommendation on Opus OPUS.ST to buy from
hold, according to news agency Direkt
** Bactiguard BACTIb.ST gets research grant from Vinnova urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN22Z0B8
IG pre-market trading Stockholm OMXS30 -0.5 pct
Stoxx Europe 50 future STXEc1 -0.7 pct
MSCI index Asia Pacific ex Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS -0.8 pct
S&P 500 close previous trading day .SPX -0.3 pct
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(RM: helena.soderpalm.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)