Nordic stocks gained Monday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.0%.
Torm PLC A was the biggest leader during the session, increasing 6.3%, and D/S Norden A/S increased 6.3%. Frontline PLC rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares gaining 5.9%.
Electrolux AB Series A posted the largest decline, declining 6.3%, followed by Tele2 AB Series A shares, which fell 5.5%. Shares of Hexatronic Group AB declined 5.2%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index rose 2.0%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 0.1%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 0.8%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index increasing 0.2%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.1% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 1.3% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.5%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.9%, and gold futures were up 0.5%. Bitcoin was down 0.1% to $29,229.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index was flat at 96.18.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.9%, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.3%, the U.S. dollar was flat, and the Danish krone was flat.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.8%, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was flat, and the euro was flat.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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