Nordic stocks dropped Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 2.0%.
Hexatronic Group AB posted the largest decline during the session, plunging 11.6%, followed by Nibe Industrier AB Series B shares, which dropped 6.7%. Shares of Munters Group AB declined 5.5%.
Medicover AB Series B was the biggest leader, adding 4.0%, and Frontline PLC rose 3.7%. Schibsted ASA Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares gaining 3.6%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 2.3%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 1.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 1.1%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 0.8%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.6%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index dropping 1.3% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.7% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index falling 1.4% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.8%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were unchanged, while gold futures were down 1.5%. Bitcoin slipped 1.9% to $26,570.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.1% to 99.55.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.2%, the U.S. dollar was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.3%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.5%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.2%, the euro was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.3%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.5%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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