Nordic Stocks Closed Down Friday; Embracer Group Series B Took Biggest Hit
December 29 2023 - 1:02PM
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Nordic stocks fell Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index
declining 0.2%.
Embracer Group AB Series B posted the largest decline during the
session, dropping 2.6%, followed by Electrolux AB Series A shares,
which fell 2.5%. Shares of Filo Corp. dropped 2.4%.
Yubico AB was the biggest leader, surging 13.5%, and Carlsberg
A/S Series A rose 7.6%. Bakkafrost P/F rounded out the top three
leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 7.1%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index held steady at
2,283.53., while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's
most-traded stocks, dropped 0.3%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.4%, and
Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.2%. Shares in
Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index
adding 0.4%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600
Index increasing 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.1% from the
previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index
down 0.2% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.7%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.5%, while
gold futures were down 0.4%. Bitcoin was down 1.3% to $41,852.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.1% to
95.68.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.8%, the U.S.
dollar was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was
flat, and the Swedish krona was down 0.5%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.7%, the
euro was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was
flat, and the Swedish krona was down 0.5%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using
technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market
Data, FactSet.
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December 29, 2023 12:47 ET (17:47 GMT)
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