Nordic Shares Close Up Tuesday; Zealand Pharma Climbs Highest

Stocks in the Nordic region rose Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.5%.

Zealand Pharma A/S was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, rising 9.5%, and Novo Nordisk A/S increased 4.0%. Siminn hf. rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares increasing 3.3%.

Electrolux AB Series B posted the largest decline, declining 5.9%, followed by Husqvarna AB Series A shares, which declined 5.5%. Shares of Granges AB declined 5.5%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 2.7%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 0.7%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 1.3%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI fell 0.5%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.9%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index dropping 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.4% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.7%, and gold futures were down 0.4%. Bitcoin was up 4.3% to $61,744.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.2% to 100.31.

Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.1%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.4%.

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

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

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June 25, 2024 12:34 ET (16:34 GMT)

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