Nordic Shares Closed Up Tuesday; Hoegh Autoliners Topped Leaders

Stocks in the Nordic region gained Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.3%.

Hoegh Autoliners ASA was the biggest leader during the session, rising 7.6%, and Wallenius Wilhelmsen ASA increased 7.5%. Alleima AB rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares gaining 7.3%.

DSV A/S posted the largest decline, declining 6.4%, followed by Marel hf. shares, which dropped 4.1%. Shares of Autostore Holdings Ltd. fell 3.3%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 0.1%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose 1.3%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.4%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.8%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.9%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.4% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.2% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.2% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.8%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 2.6%, and gold futures were down 0.2%. Bitcoin rose 7.1% to $33,803.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.3% to 100.43.

Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.7%, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Norwegian krone was down 0.2%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.5%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the euro was down 0.7%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.7%, the Danish krone was down 0.7%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.9%, and the Swedish krona was down 1.2%.

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

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