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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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December 14, 2023 12:52 ET (17:52 GMT)

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