Following positive tones during Tuesday's trade dispute between China and the United States, a number of different macro figures have caused the world's stock exchanges to back down.

Weak GDP figures from Germany, Chinese industrial output that did not meet expectations, as well as US recession signals helped to put stock in the stock markets.

Among the major Swedish companies, broad declines were seen with SSAB as the biggest loser. The steelmaker backed 5.1 percent and the mining giant Boliden fell below SEK 200 after the share fell 4.1 percent. Autoliv also lost 4.1 percent.

Among the few large companies that did not back down at all, there were defensive stocks such as pharmaceuticals and telecoms. Pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca, which received positive results for the phase 3 study of the drug lynparza against advanced ovarian cancer, ended at minus 0.6 percent and Tele2's share remained unchanged. The hygiene and health care company Essity rose 0.1 percent.

Followed other exchanges in Europe

Off the list of big companies, the gaming company Leovegas experienced a roller coaster following the morning report. The share rose sharply, up 8 per cent, instead of collapsing at most 10 per cent in the morning. The closing price was down 9.3 percent. In this case, the sector colleagues Kindred and Betsson were also brought with them.

On the European stock exchanges, the trend was the same where, for example, Frankfurt's DAX index fell 2.3 percent. The CAC40 index in Paris fell 2.2 percent and London's FTSE index backed 1.7 percent.