Nordic Stocks Dropped Thursday; Avance Gas Holding Took Biggest Hit
December 07 2023 - 1:10PM
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Nordic stocks fell Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index
declining 0.4%.
Avance Gas Holding Ltd. posted the largest decline during the
session, dropping 8.9%, followed by BW LPG Ltd. shares, which
dropped 8.0%. Shares of NEL ASA declined 5.0%.
Corem Property Group AB Series A was the biggest leader, gaining
5.4%, and Skel Fjarfestingafelag hf. gained 4.5%. Bravida Holding
AB rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares
rising 4.3%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 1.3%, while the OMX
Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks,
increased 1.2%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 0.1%, while
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 0.3%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
adding 0.5%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe
600 Index declining 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index steady from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
declining 1.8% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling
0.1%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.6%, and
gold futures were down 0.5%. Bitcoin was down 0.4% to $43,643.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.6% to
97.78.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the Swedish
krona was up 0.4%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona
was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.4%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.9%, the
Swedish krona was up 0.7%, the Danish krone was up 0.3%, the
Icelandic krona 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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December 07, 2023 12:55 ET (17:55 GMT)
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