Swedish stocks: Seen opening lower, Jefferies raises Sandvik view
01/03/2018 07:51
** Swedish shares seen opening lower on Thursday in line with European
markets
** Asian stocks were mostly lower on Thursday after Wall Street marked its
worst monthly performance in two years as hawkish-sounding comments from new
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell reverberated across the broader risk asset
markets ID:nL4N1QJ24J
** Jefferies ups Sandvik SAND.ST to buy, raises target price to SEK 185 vs
closing price of 154.50 crowns on Wednesday
** Sweco SWECb.ST buys German engineering firm with 21 employees
ID:nASM000JWH
** Atlas Copco ATCOa.ST buys British firm in treatment of compressed air,
gas and vacuum ID:nASM000JXH
** Norwegian NEXT Biometrics NEXT.OL , small comeptitor to Fingerprint
Cards FINGb.ST , Q4 revenues were largely unchanged at NOK 25 mln from Q3
ID:nFWN1QJ05H
** Business magazine Affarsvarlden gives buy recommendations for Rezidor
REZT.ST and Dustin DUST.ST
IG pre-market trading Stockholm OMXS30 -0.2 pct
Stoxx Europe 50 future STXEc1 -0.3 pct
MSCI index Asia Pacific ex Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS -0.1 pct
S&P 500 close previous trading day .SPX -1.1 pct
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