Nordic Shares Dropped Monday; Sampo Series A Fell Furthest Nordic Stocks

Stocks in the Nordic region fell Monday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 1.3%.

Sampo Oyj Series A posted the largest decline during the session, dropping 9.4%, followed by Sampo Oyj SDB shares, which dropped 8.8%. Shares of Truecaller AB Series B dropped 7.5%.

Loomis AB was the biggest leader, gaining 7.3%, and Alleima AB rose 5.4%. Vimian Group AB rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares rising 3.9%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 1.6%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 1.1%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index fell 0.4%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 0.8%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 0.2%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 1.0% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 1.3% from the previous close.

In Asia, Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index was down 0.3%, while China's Shanghai Stock Exchange was closed.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.2%, and gold futures were down 1.0%. Bitcoin climbed 4.5% to $28,329.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.5% to 100.68.

Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.7%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.3%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.6%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.7%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the euro was down 0.7%, the Danish krone was down 0.7%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.9%, the Swedish krona was down 0.9%, and the Icelandic krona was down 1.4%.

-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.

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