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Nordic stocks rose Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.2%.

Neste Oyj was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, rising 6.3%, and H. Lundbeck A/S Cl B increased 4.7%. H. Lundbeck A/S Cl A rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares gaining 4.0%.

Fortnox AB posted the largest decline, tumbling 13.8%, followed by Iceland Seafood International hf. shares, which fell 3.0%. Shares of DOF Group ASA dropped 2.6%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 2.0%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.9%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.5%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI was flat at 1,427.65. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index gaining 0.1%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 0.5% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.3% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.7%, while gold futures were up 0.3%. Bitcoin climbed 0.9% to $59,574.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.3% to 97.80.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.1%, the Swedish krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the U.S. dollar was down 0.2%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.4%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was up 0.2%, the Swedish krona was up 0.2%, the euro was up 0.2%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.2%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet


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