Stocks in the Nordic region gained Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.5%.
Hoegh Autoliners ASA was the biggest leader during the session, adding 5.0%, and Novo Nordisk A/S rose 4.2%. Kongsberg Gruppen ASA rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares gaining 4.1%.
Genmab A/S posted the largest decline, dropping 6.3%, followed by NEL ASA shares, which fell 4.5%. Shares of Lundin Mining Corp. declined 4.3%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index rose 2.3%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, dropped 0.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.8%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 1.2%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.8%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.3% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 1.7% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.9%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.4%, while gold futures were down 0.1%. Bitcoin was down 0.2% to $26,672.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.6% to 100.42.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.6%, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was down 0.5%, the euro was down 0.6%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.6%, the Danish krone was down 0.6%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.9%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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