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Nordic stocks increased Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.4%.

Autostore Holdings Ltd. was the biggest leader during the session, gaining 9.1%, and Sectra AB Series B rose 8.3%. Stora Enso Oyj Series A (SEK) rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 8.2%.

Siminn hf. posted the largest decline, falling 5.1%, followed by NP3 Fastigheter AB shares, which declined 5.1%. Shares of Neste Oyj fell 4.8%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index rose 0.1%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, declined 0.3%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.9%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 0.6%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.2%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index flat and the FTSE 100 Index falling 0.9% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.9% and China's Shanghai Composite Index down 0.6%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.4%, and gold futures were up 0.2%. Bitcoin slipped 2.2% to $42,009.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index gained 0.2% to 96.69.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 1.4%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.7%, the Swedish krona was up 0.6%, the Danish krone was flat, and the Icelandic krona was flat.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.7%, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was down 0.7%, the euro was down 0.7%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.7%.

-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.

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December 15, 2023 12:49 ET (17:49 GMT)

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