Nordic Stocks Moved Upward Thursday; EQT Climbed Highest
December 14 2023 - 1:07PM
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Stocks in the Nordic region rose Thursday, with the OMX Nordic
40 Index rising 1.3%.
EQT AB was the biggest leader during the session, jumping 14.3%,
and Corem Property Group AB Series A jumped 14.1%. Corem Property
Group AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday,
with shares surging 11.9%.
Jeudan A/S posted the largest decline, plummeting 20.4%,
followed by Swedencare AB shares, which declined 4.2%. Shares of
Protector Forsikring ASA fell 4.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 0.3%, and the OMX
Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose
1.8%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 1.8%, and
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 1.1%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
increasing 3.4%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index rising 0.9% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 1.3% from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
declining 0.7% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling
0.3%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 3.8%, and
gold futures were up 2.8%. Bitcoin fell 0.6% to $42,749.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 1.0% to
96.35.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 1.8%, the Icelandic
krona was up 0.8%, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone
was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 1.2%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 3.0%, the
Icelandic krona was up 2.0%, the Swedish krona was up 1.3%, the
Danish krone was up 1.2%, and the euro was up 1.2%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using
technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market
Data, FactSet.
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