Nordic stocks increased Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.2%.
BlueNord ASA was the biggest leader during the session, increasing 6.3%, and Autostore Holdings Ltd. rose 4.6%. Hoegh Autoliners ASA rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares rising 3.9%.
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series B posted the largest decline, declining 4.9%, followed by A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series A shares, which dropped 4.8%. Shares of Genmab A/S declined 3.8%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 0.9%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.6%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.6%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.8%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index adding 0.6%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.5% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.1% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.2%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.2%, and gold futures were up 0.4%. Bitcoin slipped 0.2% to $29,244.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.5% to 96.52.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.6%, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.3%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.8%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 1.7%, the Swedish krona was up 1.2%, the euro was up 0.8%, the Danish krone was up 0.8%, 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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