Nordic Shares Closed Up Monday; Better Collective Topped Leaders
November 20 2023 - 1:16PM
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Stocks in the Nordic region gained Monday, with the OMX Nordic
40 Index rising 0.7%.
Better Collective A/S was the biggest leader during the session,
surging 10.0%, and Bavarian Nordic A/S increased 6.0%. Lundin
Mining Corp. rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with
shares gaining 5.7%.
Iceland Seafood International hf. posted the largest decline,
declining 4.2%, followed by Lundin Gold Inc. shares, which fell
3.4%. Shares of NCC AB Series A dropped 3.3%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 1.0%, and the OMX
Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose
0.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.3%, and
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.8%. Shares in
Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
declining 1.5%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe
600 Index rising 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.1% from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
down 0.6% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.5%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 2.8%, while
gold futures were down 0.3%. Bitcoin rose 0.4% to $37,173.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.4% to
98.14.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.8%, the Swedish
krona was up 0.4%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.3%, the Danish
krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 1.0%, the
Swedish krona was up 0.7%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.5%, the
Danish krone was up 0.3%, and the euro was up 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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