Nordic stocks gained Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.4%.
Wilhelm Wilhelmsen Holding ASA was the biggest leader during the session, rising 6.5%, and Sectra AB rose 6.3%. Electrolux AB Series A rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares gaining 4.8%.
Storskogen Group AB Series B posted the largest decline, cratering 27.0%, followed by New Wave Group AB Series B shares, which tumbled 14.2%. Shares of Netcompany Group A/S tumbled 11.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 1.1%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 0.3%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.1%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 0.4%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index gaining 0.8%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 0.4% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index falling 1.5% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.8%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.3%, and gold futures were down 0.2%. Bitcoin slipped 0.8% to $28,941.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.1% to 98.17.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.2%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.4%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, the euro was down 0.2%, the Danish krone was down 0.1%, the Swedish krona was down 0.3%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.5%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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