Nordic Stocks Rise; Billerud Tops Leaders

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Nordic stocks rose Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.5%.

Billerud AB was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, increasing 7.8%, and Nibe Industrier AB Series B rose 6.7%. Yubico AB rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares gaining 5.2%.

Truecaller AB Series B posted the largest decline, declining 9.2%, followed by Getinge AB Series B shares, which dropped 4.9%. Shares of Icelandic Salmon A/S fell 4.8%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 0.8%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose 0.7%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.8%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 0.6%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index adding 0.7%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index falling 0.2% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.5%, while gold futures were up 0.2%. Bitcoin fell 1.3% to $63,479.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.5% to 95.86.

Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 0.4%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.5%, and the Norwegian krone was down 1.1%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the euro was down 0.3%, the Danish krone was down 0.3%, the Swedish krona was down 0.8%, and the Norwegian krone was down 1.4%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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September 25, 2024 12:21 ET (16:21 GMT)

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