Nordic Shares Rose Monday; Frontline Topped Leaders
19 December 2023 - 5:20AM
Dow Jones News
Stocks in the Nordic region gained Monday, with the OMX Nordic
40 Index rising 0.6%.
Frontline PLC was the biggest leader during the session, rising
7.0%, and Hoegh Autoliners ASA increased 5.9%. Europris ASA rounded
out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares increasing
5.7%.
HMS Networks AB posted the largest decline, dropping 5.6%,
followed by Nordnet AB shares, which declined 5.2%. Shares of
Embracer Group AB Series B declined 5.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 1.2%, and the
OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks,
rose 0.2%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 0.5%, while
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 1.0%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
rising 0.7%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe
600 Index declining 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.5% from
the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
dropping 0.6% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling
0.4%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 2.5%, and
gold futures were unchanged. Bitcoin fell 0.8% to $41,571.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.1% to
96.90.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.3%, the Swedish
krona was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona
was down 0.1%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.6%, the
Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the euro was up 0.3%, the Danish krone
was up 0.3%, and the Icelandic krona 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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