Nordic Stocks Closed Up Wednesday; Bakkafrost Climbed Highest
December 27 2023 - 12:03PM
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Nordic stocks increased Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index
rising 0.5%.
Bakkafrost P/F was the biggest leader during the session, adding
7.1%, and Noble Corp. PLC increased 5.3%. SeaDrill Ltd. rounded out
the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares gaining 5.0%.
Frontline PLC posted the largest decline, falling 5.7%, followed
by Hafnia Ltd. shares, which declined 4.8%. Shares of D/S Norden
A/S declined 4.7%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.1%, while the OMX
Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose
0.5%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.6%, and
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.9%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
rising 0.7%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index gaining 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.4% from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up
1.1% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.5%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.4%,
while gold futures were up 1.1%. Bitcoin was up 1.5% to
$42,949.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.4% to
95.71.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.1%, the Swedish
krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona
was down 0.1%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.6%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.7%, the
Swedish krona was up 0.7%, the Danish krone was up 0.6%, the euro
was up 0.6%, and the Icelandic krona was up 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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December 27, 2023 12:48 ET (17:48 GMT)
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