Nordic stocks dropped Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.2%.
BW LPG Ltd. posted the largest decline among large stocks during the session, falling 8.8%, followed by A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series A shares, which fell 5.0%. Shares of Royal UNIBREW A/S fell 4.0%.
Iceland Seafood International hf. was the biggest leader, gaining 8.5%, and Embracer Group AB Series B gained 7.1%. Electrolux AB Series A rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares gaining 6.8%.
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 gained 0.2%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.2%. Shares in Iceland were flat, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index holding steady at 2,221.49.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index steady and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.1% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.1% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 1.9%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were unchanged, and gold futures were up 0.5%. Bitcoin climbed 2.3% to $61,708.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.1% to 98.69.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.4%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.1%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was down 0.2%, the Danish krone was down 0.4%, the euro was down 0.4%, the Swedish krona was down 0.4%, and the Icelandic 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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