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Stocks in the Nordic region increased Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.5%.

Jeudan A/S was the biggest leader during the session, soaring 33.8%, and BioArctic AB Series B gained 9.1%. Zealand Pharma A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares increasing 5.0%.

NEL ASA posted the largest decline, declining 9.2%, followed by HMS Networks AB shares, which dropped 5.5%. Shares of Corem Property Group AB Series A dropped 4.9%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 1.4%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, declined 0.6%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 0.5%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI fell 0.1%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 0.6%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.1% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.3% and China's Shanghai Composite Index down 1.2%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.3%, and gold futures were up 0.2%. Bitcoin climbed 2.5% to $42,091.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index held steady at 98.09.

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

Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 0.4%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.4%, the euro was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the Swedish 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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December 13, 2023 12:47 ET (17:47 GMT)

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