Stocks in the Nordic region rose Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.9%.

Truecaller AB Series B was the biggest leader during the session, rising 7.3%, and Genmab A/S gained 6.9%. Adevinta ASA rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares rising 5.8%.

Icelandair Group Hf. posted the largest decline, declining 6.3%, followed by Skel Fjarfestingafelag hf. shares, which dropped 4.8%. Shares of Vatryggingafelag Islands hf. declined 3.9%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 1.9%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 2.0%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 1.3%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 1.9%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.8%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 1.5% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 2.0% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 1.4% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.1%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.9%, and gold futures were unchanged. Bitcoin was up 1.6% to $26,648.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.2% to 99.29.

Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.8%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.6%, the Swedish krona was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was flat, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.7%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was down 0.2%, the Swedish krona was down 0.5%, the Danish krone was down 0.7%, the euro was down 0.7%, and the Icelandic krona was down 1.4%.


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


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