Nordic stocks declined Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.9%.
Truecaller AB Series B posted the largest decline during the session, cratering 31.9%, followed by Electrolux Professional AB Series B shares, which plunged 17.8%. Shares of Electrolux AB Series B tumbled 13.6%.
Sweco AB Series A was the biggest leader, adding 8.2%, and Sweco AB Series B rose 8.1%. Danske Bank A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 6.5%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 1.3%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 0.7%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.9%. Shares in Iceland were flat, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index holding steady at 1,823.25.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 0.8% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 0.9% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 1.3% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 1.0%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.6%, while gold futures were down 0.3%. Bitcoin was down 0.6% to $33,969.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.2% to 100.60.
Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 0.3%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.1%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 0.5%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.4%, the Danish krone was up 0.3%, the euro was up 0.3%, and the Swedish krona was up 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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