Nordic stocks rose Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.3%.
Avance Gas Holding Ltd. was the biggest leader during the session, adding 9.2%, and Noble Corp. PLC gained 6.9%. Wallenius Wilhelmsen ASA rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares adding 6.6%.
Oersted A/S posted the largest decline, plummeting 25.7%, followed by Skanska AB Series B shares, which plunged 12.4%. Shares of D/S Norden A/S fell 3.9%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 0.8%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, dropped 0.2%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 0.1%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI was flat at 1,281.17. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 1.3%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 0.7% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.3% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were up, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 2.4% and China's Shanghai Composite Index rising 0.1%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.7%, while gold futures were down 0.3%. Bitcoin fell 0.6% to $34,457.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index gained 0.1% to 100.99.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.4%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.1%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Danish krone was down 0.4%, the euro was down 0.4%, the Swedish krona was down 0.4%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.5%, 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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