Swedish stocks: Shares fall as Swedbank slump deepens
21/02/2019 11:30
** Swedish shares fall on Thursday, blue-chip index OMXS30
.OMXS30 down 0.4 pct
** Swedbank SWEDa.ST drops sharply for the second day,
down 8.8 pct, following allegations in a report by a Swedish
television programme on Wednesday linking the bank to a Baltic
money laundering scandal involving Danske Bank DANSKE.CO .
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*** Several other Nordic banks also drop, with SEB SEBa.ST
down 3.5 pct and Nordea NDAFI.HE down 2.0 pct
** Pfeiffer Vacuum PV.DE , one of Atlas Copco's ATCOa.ST
biggest competitors within its Vacuum Technique business area,
rises 8.7 pct following better than expected 2018
earnings urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nASP0008CA. Atlas Copco is up 0.3 pct at 1129 GMT
** Fingerprint Cards FINGb.ST rises 9.2 pct after signing
a volume order of fingerprint sensors for dual-interface payment
cards with Gemalto urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN20G03D
** Millicom TIGOsdb.ST rises 1.2 pct after buying mobile
telecommunications assets of Spain's Telefonica in Panama, Costa
Rica and Nicaragua for $1.65 billion urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL1N20F23W
Stockholm (OMXS30) .OMXS30 -0.4 pct
STOXX Europe 600 .STOXX unchanged
S&P 500 index future ESc1 +0.1 pct
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(RM: johannes.hellstrom.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)