Nordic stocks increased Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.7%.
Volvo Car AB Series B was the biggest leader during the session, rising 7.3%, and Beijer Ref AB Series B rose 4.7%. Vimian Group AB rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares rising 4.4%.
Borr Drilling Ltd. posted the largest decline, falling 5.0%, followed by Saab AB Series B shares, which dropped 4.2%. Shares of Vatryggingafelag Islands hf. dropped 3.0%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 2.1%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.4%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 1.2%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 0.4%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.4%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index adding 0.9% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.9% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index falling 0.7% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.5%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.3%, while gold futures were up 0.6%. Bitcoin fell 0.1% to $27,152.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.4% to 98.94.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.7%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.3%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.5%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 1.2%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.9%, the Danish krone was up 0.5%, the euro was up 0.5%, and the Icelandic krona was up 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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