Nordic stocks rose Monday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.4%.
Wilhelm Wilhelmsen Holding ASA Series B was the biggest leader during the session, adding 5.7%, and Hafnia Ltd. rose 4.9%. Borr Drilling Ltd. rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares adding 4.9%.
Tele2 AB Series A posted the largest decline, declining 6.5%, followed by Elkem ASA shares, which declined 2.6%. Shares of Carlsberg A/S Series A fell 2.5%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 1.2%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose 1.5%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 1.2%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 1.2%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index gaining 0.3%.
Elsewhere in Europe, the STOXX Europe 600 Index rose 0.9%, while the London Stock Exchange was closed.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 1.7% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 1.1%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were unchanged, while gold futures were up 0.6%. Bitcoin climbed 0.2% to $26,131.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.1% to 98.58.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.4%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the U.S. dollar was down 0.1%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was up 0.1%, the euro was up 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.3%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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