Nordic Shares Closed Down Tuesday; Avance Gas Holding Took Biggest Hit
29 November 2023 - 5:07AM
Dow Jones News
Nordic stocks dropped Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index
declining 1.3%.
Avance Gas Holding Ltd. posted the largest decline during the
session, tumbling 11.0%, followed by NEL ASA shares, which declined
8.8%. Shares of Volvo Car AB Series B fell 6.0%.
Sinch AB was the biggest leader, adding 6.6%, and OX2 AB
increased 4.1%. SeaDrill Ltd. rounded out the top three leaders on
Tuesday, with shares gaining 4.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 2.4%, while the
OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks,
increased 0.3%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 0.5%, while
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 0.9%. Shares in
Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
declining 0.3%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index falling 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 0.1% from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
down 0.1% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.2%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 2.5%, and
gold futures were up 1.5%. Bitcoin was up 1.9% to $37,765.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.5% to
97.37.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.6%, the Danish
krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, the Norwegian
krone was down 0.2%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.5%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 1.1%, the
Danish krone was up 0.5%, the euro was up 0.5%, the Icelandic krona
was up 0.3%, and the Norwegian krone was up 0.2%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using
technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market
Data, FactSet.
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