Nordic Shares Decreased Tuesday; Beijer Ref Series B Posted Biggest Loss

Stocks in the Nordic region dropped Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.3%.

Beijer Ref AB Series B posted the largest decline during the session, dropping 6.3%, followed by Vimian Group AB shares, which declined 5.0%. Shares of TGS ASA declined 4.6%.

Billerud AB was the biggest leader, increasing 6.7%, and Bavarian Nordic A/S increased 6.6%. Skel Fjarfestingafelag hf. rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares adding 6.5%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.6%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 0.3%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index fell 0.4%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.1%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.3%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index flat and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.1% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.5%, and gold futures were up 0.1%. Bitcoin rose 2.1% to $27,323.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index held steady at 99.32.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, and the Swedish krona was flat.

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

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

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