With the US economy continuing to fire on all pistons, sales by Swedish truck maker Volvo Group rose by nearly a third in North America in the latest quarter.
Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson announced new cost-cutting measures on Tuesday in response to poorer than expected second-quarter sales and profits in a poor growth climate.
A tug of war between Sweden, Denmark and Finland over where Nordic banking giant Nordea should base its head office in the future is beginning to heat up.
A bid by troubled Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson's new chief executive to turn the company's fortunes around will hit the company's first-quarter 2017 accounts hard.
Swedes are richer than ever before, but household debt in the country continues to grow at the same time, new statistics from one of the country’s major banks show.
The Stockholm Stock Exchange started to tentatively mount a recovery on Tuesday morning as it attempted to bounce back from its worst day of trading since 1986.
Sweden’s finance minister, Magdalena Andersson, has made it clear that Britain's trade with the country will be affected by last Thursday's Brexit vote.
The Stockholm Stock Exchange felt the full force of Brexit on Monday as stocks plunged by six percent upon the opening of the country’s first day of trading since Britain voted to leave the European Union.
UPDATED: Swedbank has reported its former CEO Michael Wolf, who got fired on Tuesday, to the financial supervisory authority over suspicious transactions during his time at the helm.
Prashant Jain, 29, moved to Sweden to work at an asset management company. He tells The Local how working in investments gives you a global outlook, and how Swedes don't buck the system.
In an unusually personal speech at a Social Democratic party conference on Sunday, Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson talked of the need to counter a “poison” of inequality and xenophobia spreading across Sweden.
Swedes are feeling more optimistic about their personal finances, but would rather put their money in the bank than spend it at the shops, a new survey suggests.
The new coalition's economic and budgetary plans are 'ill advised', according to the agency that offers independent financial advice to the government.
The government expects unemployment in Sweden to remain high in the coming years, according to forecasts in the autumn budget bill presented on Wednesday by Finance Minister Anders Borg.
After reviewing Sweden's mortgage-repayment system, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen, FI) is considering enforcing compulsory mortgage amortization for Swedes as debt burdens surge.
Sweden's finance minister unveiled a rough outline of his autumn budget on Friday, wedding 25 billion kronor ($3.9 billion) to support a gradual recovery. Critics said Sweden would have to pick up the tab for Anders Borg's "budget enthusiasm" at a later date.
Swedish interest in joining the eurozone has never been lower, show new statistics from Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån) that looked at attitudes in November 2012.
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said Tuesday he would revise downwards his 2012 growth forecast, disparaged by economists as being overly optimistic, by the end of the year.
