Stocks in the Nordic region increased Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.0%.
Aker Solutions ASA was the biggest leader during the session, gaining 8.0%, and Netcompany Group A/S increased 5.3%. Sinch AB rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares increasing 4.2%.
Bufab AB posted the largest decline, plunging 13.4%, followed by OEM-International AB Series B shares, which declined 9.3%. Shares of Europris ASA fell 7.3%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 1.0%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.6%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 0.1%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI fell 0.2%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 0.2%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 0.6% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.3% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 1.5% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 1.3%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were unchanged, and gold futures were flat. Bitcoin climbed 1.8% to $30,900.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.6% to 94.71.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.9%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.7%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 1.6%, the Norwegian krone was up 1.2%, the euro was up 0.7%, the Danish krone was up 0.7%, and the Icelandic krona was up 0.6%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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