Stocks in the Nordic region declined Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.9%.
Crayon Group Holding ASA posted the largest decline during the session, falling 9.5%, followed by Electrolux AB Series A shares, which fell 5.7%. Shares of Nordic Semiconductor ASA declined 5.6%.
Filo Mining Corp. was the biggest leader, increasing 4.4%, and Surgical Science Sweden AB gained 4.3%. ISS A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares rising 3.7%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.4%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 1.7%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 1.3%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 1.6%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 0.5%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 0.5% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.8% from the previous close.
In Asia, Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index was down 0.9%, while China's Shanghai Stock Exchange was closed.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 3.9%, and gold futures were down 1.0%. Bitcoin rose 0.4% to $30,061.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.3% to 96.87.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.3%, the Swedish krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.6%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was down 0.3%, the Swedish krona was down 0.3%, the euro was down 0.3%, and the Icelandic krona was down 1.0%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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