Stocks in the Nordic region increased Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.1%.
Autostore Holdings Ltd. was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, surging 11.6%, and Nyfosa AB gained 5.2%. Fabege AB rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 5.0%.
Yubico AB posted the largest decline, declining 7.6%, followed by NCAB Group AB shares, which dropped 7.1%. Shares of TietoEVRY Oyj dropped 2.8%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.7%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.7%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 0.4%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.2%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index steady and the FTSE 100 Index declining 0.4% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.2% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.6%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.9%, while gold futures were up 1.7%. Bitcoin was up 1.0% to $68,438.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.2% to 97.36.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.2%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.1%, the Norwegian krone was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.2%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%, the euro was down 0.1%, the Danish krone was down 0.1%, and the Icelandic krona was down 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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