Nordic Stocks Decreased Tuesday; Hexatronic Group Took Biggest Hit

Stocks in the Nordic region declined Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.5%.

Hexatronic Group AB posted the largest decline during the session, tumbling 12.1%, followed by FLSmidth & Co. A/S shares, which dropped 7.6%. Shares of Vimian Group AB dropped 5.2%.

Wallenius Wilhelmsen ASA was the biggest leader, rising 6.8%, and Tele2 AB Series A increased 3.6%. Wilhelm Wilhelmsen Holding ASA Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares adding 3.5%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index was flat at 2,133.99., and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, declined 0.6%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index fell 1.1%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 0.4%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 0.6%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 0.9% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 1.6% from the previous close.

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

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 2.0%, and gold futures were down 0.3%. Bitcoin fell 0.2% to $29,320.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index held steady at 97.93.

Against the euro, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the U.S. dollar was down 0.1%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.4%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.9%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the euro was up 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was up 0.1%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.3%, 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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