Nordic Shares Moved Upward Wednesday; BoneSupport Holding Topped Leaders

Stocks in the Nordic region gained Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.3%.

BoneSupport Holding AB was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, surging 11.7%, and EQT AB increased 8.3%. Bavarian Nordic A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares adding 5.8%.

Clas Ohlson AB Series B posted the largest decline, plunging 14.3%, followed by Hoegh Autoliners ASA shares, which plunged 13.5%. Shares of Wallenius Wilhelmsen ASA plunged 11.7%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.4%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.1%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.5%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 0.1%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.7%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 0.4% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.4% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.8%, and gold futures were up 0.5%. Bitcoin rose 8.1% to $66,937.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.5% to 97.98.

Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.4%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.5%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 1.0%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.9%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.6%, the Danish krone was up 0.5%, and the euro was up 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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