STOCK MARKET – Three out of four companies on the Stockholm exchange have reported better-than-expected earnings and analysts believe in continued growth.

The Swedish government will crack down on highly popular youth-targeted SMS loans, as the left-wing opposition demanded a total ban on the loans to minors.

State-owned energy giant Vattenfall plans to build new nuclear reactors in Sweden.

• Vattenfall’s blooper strikes against Angela Merkel

It's not possible to reach a legally binding international agreement at the UN Climate summit, Danish Prime Minister said.

• Denmark warns of Copenhagen fiasco • Sweden tells US to step up on climate change • Reinfeldt 'very worried' on climate negotiations • Time to 'break deadlock' on climate change • Environment talks with US "progressing slowly"

Swedish fund investors turn to emerging markets, such as Russia, Brazil and Latin America, as risk appetite swells.

Geely Automobile will face the tough challenge of ensuring Volvo Cars reputation for safety, analysts warned.

• China's Geely is 'preferred bidder' in Volvo sale
• Reinfeldt wants Volvo jobs to stay in Sweden

Scandinavian airline SAS Group knows how to swing the company back into profit – it's just to copy a Norwegian competitor.

Estonia revealed on Thursday that it would repay a 50-million-euro crisis bank loan from Swedish bank Swedbank.

Iceland welcomed a decision by the International Monetary Fund to release the second installment of a loan to aid its economic recovery.

Swedish-Swiss engineering group ABB swelled its third quarter net profit but warned that the outlook into 2010 was "uncertain."

• ABB sees net income of $1 billion

Sweden's Prime Minister welcomes Chinese Geely Automobile as "preferred bidder" for Volvo – but wants the jobs to stay in Sweden.

"It is not acceptable to have a situation where industrial workers once again have to pay the bill for the crisis", writes Stefan Löfven, President of the Swedish industrial workers' union IF Metall, ahead of the negotiations on new national collective agreements.

Although China's carmaker Geely is Ford's first choice in the sale of Volvo, rival bidder Konsortium Jakob "will not give up".

• Volvo engineers want to buy carmaker from Ford

Norway on Wednesday became the first European country to raise interest rates this year in the global financial crisis.

Watch the film: Environmental activists dumps 18 tonnes of German coal outside Sweden's government offices.

• Vattenfall wins embarrassing award

Although economic uncertainties remain high for Swedish banks, overall risk levels have gone down and loan losses are stabilizing.

• Nordea sees higher profit after strong quarter
• Handelsbanken reports quarterly profit setback

Swedish telecom operator TeliaSonera holds its forecast for the year despite tough trading conditions in Baltic countries.

• Ericsson hit by tough market conditions
• Nokia posts first quarterly loss in a decade

A Nordic federal state would create the world’s tenth largest economy and turn the region into a global power player.

While sales of leisure travels are on the rise again the situation for Swedish business travel agents is still grim.

Although Swedish appliance maker Electrolux made a better-than-expected profit it will close two US factories to cut costs.