Nordic Stocks Closed Down Wednesday; Sinch Took Biggest Hit
January 03 2024 - 1:04PM
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Nordic stocks fell Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index
declining 1.0%.
Sinch AB posted the largest decline during the session, dropping
8.1%, followed by Fortnox AB shares, which dropped 7.7%. Shares of
Corem Property Group AB Series B fell 3.8%.
FastPartner AB Series D was the biggest leader, rising 5.5%, and
DOF Group ASA increased 5.0%. Elekta AB Series B rounded out the
top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares rising 4.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 0.2%, while
the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded
stocks, dropped 1.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 1.6%, while
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI held steady at 1,307.12.
Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI
Equity Index adding 0.6%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index declining 0.9% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 0.5% from the
previous close.
In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite Index was up 0.2%, while
Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange was closed.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 2.5%, while
gold futures were down 1.6%. Bitcoin slipped 5.1% to $42,777.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.3% to
96.89.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.3%, the Norwegian
krone was up 0.2%, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone
was flat, and the Swedish krona was down 0.4%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%, the
euro was down 0.3%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.3%, the Danish
krone was down 0.3%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.7%.
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