Stocks in the Nordic region increased Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 2.4%.
AAK AB was the biggest leader during the session, rising 7.8%, and Oersted A/S gained 7.8%. Sinch AB rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares adding 7.0%.
TGS ASA posted the largest decline, falling 4.7%, followed by Sildarvinnslan hf. shares, which declined 2.8%. Shares of Kvika Banki hf. fell 2.4%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 1.8%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 2.3%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 2.8%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 1.2%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 0.4%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index adding 2.0% and the FTSE 100 Index rising 1.8% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 2.4% and China's Shanghai Composite Index down 0.7%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.5%, while gold futures were up 0.5%. Bitcoin slipped 0.5% to $27,450.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.2% to 99.83.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.4%, the U.S. dollar was down 0.4%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.6%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 1.0%, the Danish krone was up 0.5%, the euro was up 0.4%, the Icelandic krona was flat, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
Write to Barcelona Editors at barcelonaeditors@dowjones.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
10-10-23 1252ET
