Swedish stocks: Seen opening higher, Fingerprint Cards announces new cost cuts
04/06/2018 07:43
** Swedish shares seen opening slightly higher on Monday, in line with
European stocks
** Asian shares rose to their highest in two-and-a-half-weeks on Monday as
strong U.S. jobs data offset worries that tariff wars between the United States
and the rest of the world could retard global economic growth
** Swedish biometrics firm Fingerprint Cards FINGb.ST on Monday announced
a new round of big cost cuts on the back of weak market conditions for
capacitive sensors for smartphones and heavy price pressure urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL5N1T60D1
** Poolia POOLb.ST and Uniflex UFLXb.ST to merge urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nFWN1T6040
** Hexagon HEXAb.ST buys supplier of autonomous vehicle solutions
** Assa Abloy ASSAb.ST sells U.S. wood door business to Masonite
** Skanska SKAb.ST invests EUR 36 mln in new office building in Poland
** Loomis LOOMb.ST buys CPoR Devises in France
IG pre-market trading Stockholm OMXS30 +0.6 pct
Stoxx Europe 50 future STXEc1 +0.7 pct
MSCI index Asia Pacific ex Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS +1.1 pct
S&P 500 close previous trading day .SPX +1.1 pct
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(RM: esha.vaish.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)