Nordic Shares Moved Upward Wednesday; Novo Nordisk Series B Climbed Highest

Stocks in the Nordic region rose Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.4%.

Novo Nordisk A/S was the biggest leader during the session, adding 4.9%, and Hemnet Group AB rose 3.7%. Olgeroin Egill Skallagrimsson hf. rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares gaining 3.7%.

Ambu A/S Series B posted the largest decline, falling 5.3%, followed by Evolution Gaming Group AB shares, which dropped 4.6%. Shares of Medicover AB Series B declined 4.2%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 2.7%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.3%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index held steady at 2,193.71, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI fell 0.2%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index adding 1.0%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.1% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.6% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.1%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.2%, while gold futures were up 0.8%. Bitcoin slipped 2.6% to $26,695.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.1% to 99.95.

Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, the Swedish krona was down 0.4%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.6%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the euro was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.2%, the Swedish krona was down 0.4%, and the Norwegian krone 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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