Nordic stocks fell Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.2%.
Embracer Group AB Series B posted the largest decline during the session, dropping 2.6%, followed by Electrolux AB Series A shares, which fell 2.5%. Shares of Filo Corp. dropped 2.4%.
Yubico AB was the biggest leader, surging 13.5%, and Carlsberg A/S Series A rose 7.6%. Bakkafrost P/F rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 7.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index held steady at 2,283.53., while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, dropped 0.3%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.4%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.2%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index adding 0.4%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.1% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.2% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.7%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.5%, while gold futures were down 0.4%. Bitcoin was down 1.3% to $41,852.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.1% to 95.68.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.8%, the U.S. dollar was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the Swedish krona was down 0.5%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.7%, the euro was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the Swedish krona 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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