Nordic stocks declined Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 1.4%.

Autostore Holdings Ltd. posted the largest decline during the session, declining 6.7%, followed by Kinnevik AB Series A shares, which fell 5.7%. Shares of NCAB Group AB declined 5.6%.

Vimian Group AB was the biggest leader, rising 4.7%, and AF Gruppen ASA gained 3.8%. Lundin Gold Inc. rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 3.6%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.8%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 1.0%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 0.9%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.4%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.5%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index dropping 1.1% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 1.2% from the previous close.

In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite Index was down 2.0%, while Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange was closed.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.9%, while gold futures were down 0.1%. Bitcoin slipped 0.2% to $29,376.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.1% to 97.61.

Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.2%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.7%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.9%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Danish krone was down 0.2%, the euro was down 0.2%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.3%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.8%, and the Swedish krona was down 1.1%.


-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.


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