Nordic stocks rose Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.1%.
Fastighets AB Balder Series B was the biggest leader during the session, increasing 6.6%, and Sagax AB Series A increased 3.9%. Storskogen Group AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares rising 3.8%.
ISS A/S posted the largest decline, plunging 10.8%, followed by Lundin Gold Inc. shares, which declined 5.4%. Shares of D/S Norden A/S dropped 4.8%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.7%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.7%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.6%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI was flat at 1,255.55. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 0.2%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.8% and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.4% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.8% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.3%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.0%, while gold futures were up 0.1%. Bitcoin fell 0.3% to $29,389.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index held steady at 97.22.
Against the euro, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, the U.S. dollar was down 0.4%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.7%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the euro was up 0.4%, the Danish krone was up 0.3%, the Swedish krona was up 0.3%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%, and the Norwegian krone 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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