Nordic Stocks Dropped Monday; A.P. Moeller-Maersk B Took Biggest Hit Nordic Stocks

Nordic stocks were flat Monday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index holding steady at 2,544.56.

Elkem ASA was the biggest leader during the session, rising 7.7%, and Mycronic AB increased 5.9%. Zealand Pharma A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares adding 5.8%.

A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series B posted the largest decline, falling 5.7%, followed by A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series A shares, which declined 5.3%. Shares of Avance Gas Holding Ltd. fell 5.3%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 0.5%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.2%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.9%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 1.0%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index gaining 1.1%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index adding 0.4% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.1% from the previous close.

In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite Index was down 1.4%, while Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange was closed.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 3.8%, and gold futures were down 0.6%. Bitcoin rose 2.4% to $45,346.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.2% to 96.66.

Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.9%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.3%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.3%, the euro was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was up 0.2%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.7%.

-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.

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