Nordic Stocks Moved Upward Friday; Frontline Topped Leaders
January 12 2024 - 1:05PM
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Nordic stocks increased Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index
rising 0.6%.
Frontline PLC was the biggest leader during the session, adding
7.3%, and Ambu A/S Series B rose 7.2%. Autostore Holdings Ltd.
rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares rising
6.0%.
Electrolux AB Series B posted the largest decline, falling 4.8%,
followed by Paradox Interactive AB shares, which dropped 4.6%.
Shares of NEL ASA dropped 3.4%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 0.2%, and the OMX
Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose
0.9%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.8%, and
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 0.7%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
gaining 0.1%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index gaining 0.8% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.6% from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
up 1.5% and China's Shanghai Composite Index down 0.2%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.1%, and
gold futures were up 1.5%. Bitcoin was down 5.9% to $43,455.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index was flat at
96.92.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.3%, the Icelandic
krona was up 0.3%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.2%, the Danish krone
was flat, and the Swedish krona was down 0.1%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.1%, the
Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the euro was down 0.2%, the Danish
krone was down 0.2%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.3%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using
technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market
Data, FactSet.
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