Stocks in the Nordic region dropped Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.7%.
Vitrolife AB posted the largest decline during the session, declining 4.8%, followed by DSV A/S shares, which fell 4.3%. Shares of engcon AB Cl B dropped 4.0%.
Fly Play hf. was the biggest leader, increasing 9.6%, and AstraZeneca PLC increased 4.2%. Skel Fjarfestingafelag hf. rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 3.7%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 1.1%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, held steady at 4,385.13..
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index held steady at 2,253.85., while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 0.4%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.5%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index dropping 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index flat from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.4% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 1.8%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.3%, while gold futures were up 0.8%. Bitcoin rose 0.8% to $29,350.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.1% to 96.06.
Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 0.4%, the Danish krone was flat, the Norwegian krone was down 0.3%, the Swedish krona was down 0.5%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.5%. Vitrolife AB posted the largest decline during the session, declining 4.8%, followed by DSV A/S shares, which fell 4.3%. Shares of engcon AB Cl B dropped 4.0%.
Fly Play hf. was the biggest leader, increasing 9.6%, and AstraZeneca PLC increased 4.2%. Skel Fjarfestingafelag hf. rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 3.7%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 1.1%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, held steady at 4,385.13..
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index held steady at 2,253.85., while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 0.4%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.5%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index dropping 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index flat from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.4% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 1.8%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.3%, while gold futures were up 0.8%. Bitcoin rose 0.8% to $29,350.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.1% to 96.06.
Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 0.4%, the Danish krone was flat, the Norwegian krone was down 0.3%, the Swedish krona was down 0.5%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.5%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 0.9%, the euro was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was up 0.5%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.3%, and the Swedish krona was flat.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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