Nordic stocks increased Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.7%.
Demant A/S was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, gaining 8.9%, and BW LPG Ltd. increased 4.8%. Storskogen Group AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares increasing 4.1%.
Nordic Semiconductor ASA posted the largest decline, cratering 22.3%, followed by Nolato AB Series B shares, which declined 9.6%. Shares of Corem Property Group AB Series A fell 4.9%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 0.5%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.6%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.8%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.7%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 0.4%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.6% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.9% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.5% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 3.2%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.3%, and gold futures were up 0.4%. Bitcoin climbed 2.0% to $43,221.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.3% to 98.43.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.7%, the Swedish krona was up 0.7%, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.1%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.8%, the Swedish krona was up 0.7%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the euro was up 0.1%, and the Danish krone was up 0.1%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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