Nordic Shares Dropped Tuesday; GN Store Nord Took Biggest Hit
24 January 2024 - 5:07AM
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Stocks in the Nordic region declined Tuesday, with the OMX
Nordic 40 Index declining 0.1%.
GN Store Nord A/S posted the largest decline during the session,
declining 6.3%, followed by Alleima AB shares, which dropped 4.1%.
Shares of Frontline PLC dropped 4.0%.
Truecaller AB Series B was the biggest leader, gaining 7.8%, and
OX2 AB rose 7.2%. Norsk Hydro ASA rounded out the top three leaders
on Tuesday, with shares adding 7.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.6%, while the
OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks,
gained 0.6%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.3%, and
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.5%. Shares in
Iceland were flat, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
holding steady at 2,301.82.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe
600 Index falling 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index steady 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 0.5%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.6%,
while gold futures were up 0.1%. Bitcoin fell 1.2% to $39,393.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.2% to
98.20.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.5%, the Norwegian
krone was up 0.3%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the Swedish
krona was up 0.1%, and the Danish krone was flat.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was down 0.2%, the
Icelandic krona was down 0.3%, the Swedish krona was down 0.4%, the
Danish krone was down 0.4%, and the euro 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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