Nordic Shares Decline; Hexpol Series B Falls Furthest

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Nordic stocks dropped Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 2.1%.

Hexpol AB Series B posted the largest decline among large stocks during the session, declining 6.6%, followed by Frontline PLC shares, which declined 5.8%. Shares of NCAB Group AB declined 5.5%.

FastPartner AB Series A was the biggest leader, increasing 4.7%, and Kaldvik A/S increased 3.8%. Lundin Gold Inc. rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares adding 3.7%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 3.9%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, dropped 1.1%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index fell 0.5%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 0.3%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.2%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 1.4% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 1.2% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.6%, while gold futures were up 1.2%. Bitcoin fell 0.2% to $63,138.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.1% to 95.87.

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

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

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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September 20, 2024 12:21 ET (16:21 GMT)

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