Nordic Shares Dropped Thursday; Iceland Seafood International Posted Biggest Loss

Stocks in the Nordic region dropped Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.8%.

Iceland Seafood International hf. posted the largest decline during the session, dropping 7.4%, followed by Ambu A/S Series B shares, which dropped 6.4%. Shares of A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series B declined 5.2%.

Systemair AB was the biggest leader, adding 8.1%, and Sinch AB rose 6.4%. Hexatronic Group AB rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares rising 6.1%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 1.1%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 0.3%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index was flat at 2,184.74, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.3%. Shares in Iceland were flat, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index holding steady at 2,075.91.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index falling 0.5% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.9% and China's Shanghai Composite Index down 0.6%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.7%, while gold futures were down 0.2%. Bitcoin fell 2.0% to $26,707.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.3% to 98.24.

Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.8%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.3%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, and the Swedish krona was down 0.2%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was down 0.5%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.7%, the Danish krone was down 0.8%, the euro was down 0.8%, and the Swedish krona was down 1.0%.

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

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