Nordic stocks increased Wednesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.6%.
BW LPG Ltd. was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, adding 5.8%, and Rockwool A/S Series A rose 5.6%. Norsk Hydro ASA rounded out the top three leaders on Wednesday, with shares increasing 5.1%.
BioGaia AB Series B posted the largest decline, falling 5.4%, followed by Tomra Systems ASA shares, which declined 4.9%. Shares of Scatec ASA fell 4.9%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index rose 1.0%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose 0.6%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.2%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 0.5%. Shares in Iceland were flat, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index holding steady at 2,024.77.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index adding 0.3% and the FTSE 100 Index steady from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index declining 1.0% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.2%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.7%, and gold futures were up 1.1%. Bitcoin was up 0.5% to $66,387.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.3% to 98.91.
Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the Swedish krona was up 0.4%, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.6%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 1.1%, the Swedish krona was up 1.0%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.6%, the euro was up 0.6%, and the Danish krone was up 0.6%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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