Nordic stocks declined Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.9%.
BoneSupport Holding AB posted the largest decline among large stocks during the session, declining 5.0%, followed by FastPartner AB Series A shares, which fell 4.7%. Shares of Nordic Semiconductor ASA fell 3.5%.
Sparebank 1 Ostlandet was the biggest leader, adding 7.1%, and Lundin Mining Corp. increased 5.7%. Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson Series A rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares gaining 5.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 1.9%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, was flat at 4,390.60..
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.2%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.2%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.3%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 0.2% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.3% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.5%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.1%, and gold futures were down 0.2%. Bitcoin was down 1.6% to $68,216.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.2% to 98.14.
Against the euro, the Danish krone was flat, the U.S. dollar was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, the Swedish krona was down 0.4%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.6%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the euro was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, the Swedish krona was down 0.4%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.6%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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