Nordic Shares Moved Upward Thursday; Avance Gas Holding Topped Leaders
January 04 2024 - 12:04PM
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Stocks in the Nordic region gained Thursday, with the OMX Nordic
40 Index rising 1.6%.
Avance Gas Holding Ltd. was the biggest leader during the
session, adding 7.3%, and Hampidjan hf. increased 6.8%. OX2 AB
rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares adding
6.0%.
Modern Times Group MTG AB Cl A posted the largest decline,
falling 9.9%, followed by engcon AB Cl B shares, which fell 7.6%.
Shares of Modern Times Group MTG AB Cl B declined 5.6%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 2.9%, and the OMX
Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose
1.5%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.2%, and
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 1.2%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
rising 2.1%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index rising 0.7% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.5% from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
dropping 0.5% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling
0.4%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.5%,
while gold futures were up 0.4%. Bitcoin fell 0.4% to $42,782.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.1% to
96.90.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.4%, the Norwegian
krone was up 0.2%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the Danish
krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.2%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.7%, the
Norwegian krone was up 0.4%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.3%, the
Danish krone was up 0.2%, and the euro 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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