Nordic stocks fell Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 1.9%.
Embracer Group AB Series B posted the largest decline during the session, tumbling 13.8%, followed by Platzer Fastigheter Holding AB Series B shares, which fell 6.9%. Shares of Sagax AB Series A declined 5.8%.
Vatryggingafelag Islands hf. was the biggest leader, gaining 5.9%, and Icelandair Group Hf. increased 5.2%. Fly Play hf. rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares adding 5.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 1.4%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, dropped 1.8%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 1.8%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 1.5%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 0.3%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 2.3% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 2.2% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index declining 1.7% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.5%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.3%, and gold futures were down 0.6%. Bitcoin fell 0.5% to $30,332.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index held steady at 97.67.
Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 1.2%, the U.S. dollar was down 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.3%, and the Norwegian krone was down 1.1%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 1.4%, the euro was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was up 0.2%, the Swedish krona was down 0.2%, and the Norwegian krone 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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