Nordic stocks dropped Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 1.0%.
AF Gruppen ASA posted the largest decline during the session, falling 7.3%, followed by Lundin Gold Inc. shares, which dropped 7.3%. Shares of NEL ASA declined 7.3%.
GN Store Nord A/S was the biggest leader, surging 11.0%, and Marel hf. increased 6.4%. Oersted A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 4.9%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.7%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, declined 1.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index fell 1.1%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 0.4%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index increasing 2.2%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 1.0% and the FTSE 100 Index falling 1.3% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index declining 0.2% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.5%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.7%, while gold futures were down 1.3%. Bitcoin climbed 0.1% to $36,603.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index gained 0.1% to 100.37.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.6%, the Swedish krona was flat, the U.S. dollar was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.4%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.6%, the Swedish krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the euro was flat, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.4%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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