Nordic stocks fell Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.8%.
Vitrolife AB posted the largest decline during the session, declining 8.7%, followed by Genmab A/S shares, which declined 6.6%. Shares of Vimian Group AB fell 5.5%.
HMS Networks AB was the biggest leader, jumping 12.0%, and Modern Times Group MTG AB Cl A increased 3.5%. Filo Corp. rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares adding 3.2%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 1.3%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 0.8%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 0.2%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI fell 0.6%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.2%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index steady from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.2% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.4%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 3.8%, while gold futures were up 0.1%. Bitcoin fell 0.5% to $40,900.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.1% to 98.14.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.2%, the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.4%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.3%, the euro was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was up 0.3%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.2%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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