Nordic stocks declined Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.9%.
Mycronic AB posted the largest decline during the session, declining 5.1%, followed by SKF AB Series A shares, which declined 4.1%. Shares of SKF AB Series B dropped 3.9%.
Bavarian Nordic A/S was the biggest leader, rising 5.4%, and Frontline PLC rose 4.3%. International Petroleum Corp. rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares adding 4.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.8%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 1.0%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 1.2%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.1%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.7%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index dropping 0.6% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.4% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 1.7% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.6%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 2.1%, while gold futures were down 0.2%. Bitcoin rose 0.5% to $29,259.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.2% to 97.00.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.7%, the Swedish krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.1%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.8%, the Swedish krona was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was up 0.2%, the euro was up 0.1%, and the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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