Nordic Shares Decreased Thursday; Avance Gas Holding Took Biggest Hit
January 11 2024 - 1:03PM
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Nordic stocks fell Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index
declining 0.8%.
Avance Gas Holding Ltd. posted the largest decline during the
session, tumbling 12.1%, followed by BW LPG Ltd. shares, which fell
9.8%. Shares of BioArctic AB Series B dropped 9.4%.
Autostore Holdings Ltd. was the biggest leader, adding 9.6%, and
Bakkafrost P/F increased 6.0%. Elkem ASA rounded out the top three
leaders on Thursday, with shares increasing 5.3%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.7%, and the OMX
Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks,
declined 0.5%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 0.2%, while
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 0.6%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
increasing 0.1%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index falling 0.8% and the FTSE 100 Index falling 1.0% from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up
1.8% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.3%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.8%, while
gold futures were down 0.4%. Bitcoin slipped 0.4% to $45,763.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.2% to
97.20.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.3%, the Norwegian
krone was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona
was down 0.1%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.5%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was flat, the
Danish krone was down 0.2%, the euro was down 0.3%, the Icelandic
krona was down 0.3%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.8%.
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