”Swedish companies are hiding behind umbrella organisations which are trying to sabotage the climate talks in Copenhagen”, says Olivier Hoedeman at the Corporate Europe Observatory.

Irritated passengers scrambled to reschedule their flights.

Sweden’s Anders Borg “has emerged as one of Europe’s most respected finance ministers”, in the view of a Financial Times panel.

• Sweden's Fin Min a 'pony-tailed mastermind'

It’s safe to do business with Swedes, an international graft watchdog said, but warned of growing shady banking practices.

Dealers of Saab Automobile in the US are running out of cars as the Swedish car marker prepares for the new 9-5 sedan.

Helsinki's main airport was almost deserted on Monday.

• Finnair pilots' strike to ground flights

Norwegian Øystein Løseth will succeed Lars G. Josefsson as new head of troubled Swedish stated-owned power company Vattenfall.

• Vattenfall's criticized CEO to step down

US networking giant Cisco said on Monday it had raised its bid for Norwegian video-conference company Tandberg.

EU and Russian leaders will open summit talks in Sweden Wednesday in an atmosphere clouded by uneasy relations between Moscow and Stockholm.

All long distance flights and European flights will be cancelled.

Controversy has mounted over the Swedish energy giant's current chief following a slew of media revelations.

Shares in Norwegian media group Schibsted soared in Oslo after the company said its internet products boosted quarterly earnings.

STOCK MARKET – The OMX Stockholm index is at year-high and is expected to keep swelling, analysts say.

French aircraft maker Dassault lashed out at Swedish fighter jet maker Saab for a multi-billion-dollar jet fighter contract in Brazil.

After a long-drawn legal dispute Swedish telecom operator TeliaSonera and Russian Altimo now plans to list a new international telecom company on the New York Stock Exchange.

"Finnair has all that it takes to emerge from the hard times as a winner" the airlines new chief executive Mika Vehvilaeinen said.

A Swedish undertaker -- that has caused a small revolution in the funeral business with its ecological burials -- has nicked the top position at Google ahead of Ikea and Volvo.

The Chinese auto group Geely, which is trying to buy Volvo Cars from Ford, intends to boost Volvo sales to a million per year.

Swedish telecom equipment giant Ericsson said it would axe 700 jobs and close a key facility in Coventry, central England.

Swedish households may be forced to sell their homes for less than the purchase price, experts warn.