Stocks in the Nordic region rose Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.1%.
ALK-Abello A/S Series B was the biggest leader during the session, rising 4.7%, and Elekta AB Series B increased 4.6%. Peab AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares adding 3.0%.
Embracer Group AB Series B posted the largest decline, falling 6.6%, followed by Vimian Group AB shares, which dropped 6.5%. Shares of NEL ASA fell 6.4%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 0.7%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, dropped 0.5%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 0.4%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI declined 1.2%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 0.1%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index falling 0.8% from the previous close.
In Asia, Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index was down 2.3%, while China's Shanghai Stock Exchange was closed.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 4.4%, and gold futures were down 0.2%. Bitcoin climbed 0.1% to $27,425.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.3% to 100.47.
Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.2%, the U.S. dollar was down 0.5%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.7%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 0.6%, the euro was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was up 0.5%, the Swedish krona was up 0.2%, and the Norwegian krone 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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