Nordic Shares Declined Friday; Yara International Took Biggest Hit
January 05 2024 - 1:16PM
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Nordic Shares Declined Friday; Yara International Took Biggest
Hit
Stocks in the Nordic region fell Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40
Index declining 0.3%.
Yara International ASA posted the largest decline during the
session, declining 4.3%, followed by Thule Group AB shares, which
fell 3.6%. Shares of Borr Drilling Ltd. fell 3.5%.
Carlsberg A/S Series A was the biggest leader, adding 9.7%, and
Zealand Pharma A/S rose 5.2%. Nova Klubburinn hf. rounded out the
top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 5.0%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.2%, while the
OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks,
increased 0.5%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 1.0%, while
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 0.4%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
rising 1.3%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index falling 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index falling 0.4% from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
up 0.3% and China's Shanghai Composite Index down 0.9%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.6%, and
gold futures were flat. Bitcoin fell 2.1% to $43,526.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.1% to
96.83.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was flat, the Danish krone was
flat, the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was
down 0.2%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the euro was flat, the Danish krone was
flat, the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was
down 0.1%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.2%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using
technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market
Data, FactSet.
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