Nordic Shares Closed Up Tuesday; Hexatronic Group Topped Leaders

Nordic stocks gained Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.7%.

Hexatronic Group AB was the biggest leader during the session, gaining 5.9%, and Thule Group AB rose 5.5%. Neste Oyj rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares gaining 4.8%.

BioArctic AB Series B posted the largest decline, dropping 9.6%, followed by Scatec ASA shares, which declined 4.2%. Shares of Nordic Semiconductor ASA fell 3.7%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 0.1%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose 0.9%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.9%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 1.6%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.9%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.6% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.3% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 1.8% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.1%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 3.3%, while gold futures were down 0.5%. Bitcoin was down 0.3% to $25,819.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.3% to 97.01.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 1.1%, the Swedish krona was up 0.7%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.6%, the Danish krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.4%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 1.4%, the Swedish krona was up 1.0%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.9%, the euro was up 0.4%, and the Danish krone was up 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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