Stocks in the Nordic region gained Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.2%.
Koebenhavns Lufthavne A/S was the biggest leader during the session, increasing 8.5%, and Paradox Interactive AB rose 6.3%. Iceland Seafood International hf. rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares adding 6.0%.
Elkem ASA posted the largest decline, falling 8.9%, followed by Autostore Holdings Ltd. shares, which declined 7.4%. Shares of Storskogen Group AB Series B dropped 4.9%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 1.1%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 1.3%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 1.3%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI fell 0.1%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index gaining 0.4%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 0.8% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.6% from the previous close.
In Asia, Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index was down 0.3%, while China's Shanghai Stock Exchange was closed.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.7%, and gold futures were up 0.8%. Bitcoin rose 1.5% to $27,874.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.1% to 100.10.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, the Norwegian krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.2%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was up 0.3%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.3%, the euro was up 0.3%, and the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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