Nordic stocks dropped Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.6%.

Sectra AB posted the largest decline during the session, dropping 9.3%, followed by Stillfront Group AB shares, which declined 7.6%. Shares of Bakkafrost P/F declined 4.7%.

Danske Bank A/S was the biggest leader, rising 8.0%, and Dometic Group AB gained 7.8%. Fastighets AB Balder Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares rising 5.9%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 1.7%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, dropped 0.1%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.5%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 1.1%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.9%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index steady from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 1.8% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.1%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.3%, while gold futures were down 1.1%. Bitcoin slipped 2.4% to $26,306.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index held steady at 97.75.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.4%, the Swedish krona was up 0.2%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.1%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the Swedish krona was up 0.3%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%, the euro was up 0.1%, and the Danish krone was up 0.1%.


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


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