Nordic Stocks Moved Upward Wednesday; Vimian Group Led Increases
November 29 2023 - 1:02PM
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Nordic stocks gained Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index
rising 0.8%.
Vimian Group AB was the biggest leader during the session,
increasing 7.6%, and Filo Corp. increased 5.8%. Vitrolife AB
rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares
increasing 5.6%.
Frontline PLC posted the largest decline, dropping 4.7%,
followed by Kindred Group PLC SDR shares, which dropped 4.2%.
Shares of Hafnia Ltd. dropped 3.5%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 0.8%, and the OMX
Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks,
increased 0.4%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.8%, while
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 0.5%. Shares in
Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
declining 0.7%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe
600 Index rising 0.5% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 0.4% from
the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
falling 0.3% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.6%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.3%, and
gold futures were up 0.2%. Bitcoin was down 0.5% to $37,544.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.1% to
97.52.
Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%, the U.S.
dollar was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, the Norwegian krone
was down 0.1%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.2%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was flat, the euro
was down 0.2%, the Danish krone was down 0.2%, the Norwegian krone
was down 0.3%, 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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November 29, 2023 12:47 ET (17:47 GMT)
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