Nordic stocks fell Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.7%.
H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB Series B posted the largest decline during the session, dropping 7.4%, followed by Sinch AB shares, which fell 6.5%. Shares of Vimian Group AB declined 5.5%.
Vitrolife AB was the biggest leader, adding 6.1%, and Elkem ASA rose 5.6%. Tomra Systems ASA rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 4.2%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 1.6%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.2%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.3%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index increasing 0.6%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index adding 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.5% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 1.1% and China's Shanghai Composite Index down 0.3%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were unchanged, and gold futures were up 0.9%. Bitcoin was down 0.8% to $26,360.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index held steady at 99.35.
Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.2%, the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.6%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 0.5%, the euro was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was up 0.3%, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.3%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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