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Nordic stocks increased Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.3%.

NKT A/S was the biggest leader during the session, adding 6.2%, and Sagax AB Series A rose 5.3%. FLSmidth & Co. A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 4.3%.

Electrolux AB Series A posted the largest decline, falling 3.8%, followed by Borr Drilling Ltd. shares, which declined 3.3%. Shares of Tele2 AB Series A dropped 3.2%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.4%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.7%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.8%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.1%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index increasing 1.5%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 0.4% and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.1% from the previous close.

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

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.3%, and gold futures were down 0.4%. Bitcoin was down 0.8% to $26,871.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.1% to 100.03.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the U.S. dollar was down 0.2%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.5%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.7%, the Swedish krona was up 0.2%, the euro was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was up 0.2%, and the Icelandic krona 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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September 29, 2023 12:49 ET (16:49 GMT)

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