Nordic Shares Decreased Tuesday; Sinch Took Biggest Hit
January 02 2024 - 1:04PM
Dow Jones News
Stocks in the Nordic region dropped Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic
40 Index declining 0.1%.
Sinch AB posted the largest decline during the session, falling
8.1%, followed by Fortnox AB shares, which dropped 7.7%. Shares of
Corem Property Group AB Series B dropped 3.8%.
FastPartner AB Series D was the biggest leader, rising 5.5%, and
DOF Group ASA rose 5.0%. Elekta AB Series B rounded out the top
three leaders on Tuesday, with shares rising 4.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index was flat at 2,283.27.,
while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded
stocks, increased 0.6%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index held steady at
2,394.93., while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI held
steady at 1,307.06. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX
Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.4%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index declining 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.2% from the
previous close.
In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite Index was down 0.4%, while
Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange was closed.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.0%,
while gold futures were unchanged. Bitcoin climbed 3.8% to
$45,238.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.7% to
96.48.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.8%, the Danish krone
was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.4%, the Swedish krona was
down 0.4%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.7%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the euro was down 0.8%, the Danish
krone was down 0.8%, the Swedish krona was down 1.2%, the Icelandic
krona was down 1.2%, and the Norwegian krone was down 1.6%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using
technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market
Data, FactSet.
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January 02, 2024 12:49 ET (17:49 GMT)
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