Nordic Stocks Rise; Icelandair Group Climbs Highest

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Stocks in the Nordic region gained Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.6%.

Icelandair Group Hf. was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, adding 8.7%, and Amaroq Minerals Ltd. DR rose 6.9%. SSAB AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares gaining 6.6%.

Nordic Semiconductor ASA posted the largest decline, plummeting 24.2%, followed by DOF Group ASA shares, which dropped 7.5%. Shares of Subsea 7 S.A. fell 7.0%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 1.0%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 1.7%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 1.2%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI fell 0.8%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 0.6%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 1.2% and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.2% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 2.0%, while gold futures were up 0.4%. Bitcoin rose 3.2% to $65,180.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.4% to 95.62.

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

Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.7%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.4%, the Danish krone was up 0.4%, the euro was up 0.4%, and the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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September 26, 2024 12:21 ET (16:21 GMT)

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