https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Sweden said Wednesday it had sold its remaining 7-percent share in the country's largest bank, Nordea, for 21.6 billion kronor ($3.4 billion) with the proceeds being used to reduce public debt. https://www.thelocal.se/20130925/50424 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:53:00 +0200 50424 Sweden's centre-right government said on Wednesday it had sold 6.4 percent of Nordea, the largest Nordic bank, for 19.5 billion kronor ($3.05 billion). https://www.thelocal.se/20130619/48578 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:02:00 +0200 48578 Scandinavian airline SAS said Wednesday it improved its operating profit last year but that it was dragged into loss as its former subsidiary Spanair filed for bankruptcy. https://www.thelocal.se/20120209/39002 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:09:00 +0100 39002 Stock market success is impossible to predict but according to new research, certain ‘crystal clear’ trends have been discovered. https://www.thelocal.se/20120117/38554 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:47:00 +0100 38554 Scandinavian airline SAS reported on Tuesday a slim third-quarter net profit, a switch from a deep loss in 2010, and maintained its positive outlook for all of 2011, but said uncertainty lay ahead. https://www.thelocal.se/20111108/37230 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:08:00 +0100 37230 Swedish clothing giant Hennes & Mauritz reported a profit before tax of 4.85 billion kronor ($717 million) for the period June-August, the third quarter in the company's irregular accounting period. https://www.thelocal.se/20110929/36440 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:36:00 +0200 36440 The Stockholm stock market continued to fall on Friday, with the OMXS-index dropping nearly 4 percent within 30 minutes of opening and finishing the week down nearly 11 percent. https://www.thelocal.se/20110819/35640 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:53:00 +0200 35640 Scandinavian airline SAS on Wednesday said it returned to profit in the second quarter as its passenger numbers increased, and maintained its outlook of full-year growth despite higher fuel prices. https://www.thelocal.se/20110817/35602 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:55:00 +0200 35602 Employees of online music streaming service Spotify who took up the option to buy shares are set for a huge windfall. https://www.thelocal.se/20110812/35510 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:37:00 +0200 35510 The ongoing financial crisis in the US is causing growing concern among locals in the municipality of Pajala in the North of Sweden, whose future is largely dependent on an iron ore ore mine due to be opened by an American company. https://www.thelocal.se/20110812/35500 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:24:00 +0200 35500 The Stockholm stock exchange dropped by 4 percent at the opening of trading on Friday morning, but had recouped the losses by the afternoon amid mounting fears about the the global economy.. https://www.thelocal.se/20110805/35370 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:56:00 +0200 35370 Three former traders at investment bank Carnegie have been acquitted by Stockholm District Court on charges of illegal price manipulation. https://www.thelocal.se/20101215/30870 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:00 +0100 30870 Two men at the centre of Sweden’s biggest ever insider trading case have been sentenced to two years in jail for tax crimes, but have been cleared on the main charges of insider trading. https://www.thelocal.se/20100601/26970 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:08:00 +0200 26970 Increasing concern about the European debt crisis and renewed tensions between North and South Korea caused share prices in Stockholm to fall sharply on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20100525/26852 Tue, 25 May 2010 21:10:00 +0200 26852 The Stockholm stock exchange has retained its allure among foreign investors who now own 35 percent of its total value, new figures published on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20090731/21034 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:28:00 +0200 21034 Swedish households’ net wealth fell by 6.6 percent, or 185 billion kronor ($24.3 billion), during the third quarter of 2008, with losses from shares and funds accounting for 45 percent of the drop. https://www.thelocal.se/20081218/16446 Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:42:00 +0100 16446 After reporting better than expected profits for the third quarter, Swedbank then saw its shares drop more than 10 percent on Thursday following an announcement that the bank may need to seek additional capital. https://www.thelocal.se/20081023/15166 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:16:00 +0200 15166 Interest rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve will push up stock markets in Sweden and the rest of Europe, analyst Peter Malmqvist of Nordnet says. https://www.thelocal.se/20080123/9744 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:05:00 +0100 9744 Stock market analysts were expecting major falls in Stockholm on Tuesday following a huge falls overnight on Asian markets. https://www.thelocal.se/20080122/9732 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:05:00 +0100 9732 The number of Swedish share owners fell in 2007 to under 46,000, according to new figures from the Nordic Central Securities Depository. https://www.thelocal.se/20080117/9681 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:00:00 +0100 9681