Stocks in the Nordic region rose Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.9%.
Filo Corp. was the biggest leader during the session, adding 6.0%, and Bavarian Nordic A/S increased 5.9%. Africa Oil Corp. rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares rising 4.8%.
Bakkafrost P/F posted the largest decline, declining 9.7%, followed by Bakkafrost P/F shares, which declined 9.2%. Shares of Autostore Holdings Ltd. declined 8.2%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 0.6%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose 0.9%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.7%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 0.4%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 1.0%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.7% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.2% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.9% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.9%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.1%, while gold futures were up 0.2%. Bitcoin was down 1.0% to $25,849.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index gained 0.1% to 98.27.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.4%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.3%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, and the Danish krone was flat.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.3%, the euro was down 0.4%, and the Danish krone was down 0.5%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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