Stocks in the Nordic region rose Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.1%.
Truecaller AB Series B was the biggest leader during the session, soaring 39.7%, and Lindab International AB jumped 11.2%. Autoliv Inc. rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 9.3%.
Sinch AB posted the largest decline, tumbling 15.5%, followed by SSAB AB Series B shares, which plunged 14.0%. Shares of SSAB AB Series A plunged 13.7%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 0.3%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, dropped 0.2%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.1%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.6%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index adding 1.0%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.2% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index dropping 0.6% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.1%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.0%, while gold futures were down 0.4%. Bitcoin climbed 0.4% to $29,825.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.4% to 95.95.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.1%, the Norwegian krone was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, and the Swedish krona was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%, the Danish krone was down 0.1%, the euro was down 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.3%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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