Nordic Shares Gain; Samhaellsbyggnadsbolaget Tops Leaders

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Nordic stocks increased Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.5%.

Samhaellsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden AB Series B was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, surging 12.6%, and Samhaellsbyggnadsbolaget i Norden AB Series D increased 6.6%. Vitec Software Group AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares adding 6.5%.

NCAB Group AB posted the largest decline, dropping 8.2%, followed by BoneSupport Holding AB shares, which dropped 7.3%. Shares of MIPS AB declined 5.4%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index rose 1.2%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 1.2%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 1.9%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.8%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index adding 0.9%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 1.4% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.9% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.9%, and gold futures were up 0.6%. Bitcoin was up 5.3% to $63,252.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.2% to 95.78.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.7%, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 1.0%, the Swedish krona was up 0.4%, the euro was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was up 0.3%, and the Icelandic krona was up 0.3%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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September 19, 2024 12:21 ET (16:21 GMT)

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