Nordic stocks fell Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.2%.

Creades AB Series A posted the largest decline during the session, dropping 9.9%, followed by Intrum AB shares, which dropped 7.2%. Shares of Systemair AB declined 6.5%.

BioArctic AB Series B was the biggest leader, adding 5.8%, and NP3 Fastigheter AB increased 4.2%. Oersted A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 4.0%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.6%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.4%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index held steady at 2,301.98, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.3%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index gaining 0.6%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index dropping 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.5% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 2.0% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.6%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were unchanged, and gold futures were down 0.1%. Bitcoin was down 0.7% to $26,476.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.1% to 97.20.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 1.7%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.3%, the Swedish krona was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.3%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 1.4%, the euro was down 0.3%, the Danish krone was down 0.3%, the Swedish krona was down 0.3%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.6%.


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


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