Nordic stocks fell Monday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.4%.

Adevinta ASA posted the largest decline during the session, falling 9.5%, followed by Schibsted ASA Series B shares, which declined 6.8%. Shares of Schibsted ASA fell 6.7%.

Marel hf. was the biggest leader, gaining 4.2%, and Getinge AB Series B rose 3.8%. Autoliv Inc. rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares adding 3.4%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index rose 0.2%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, declined 0.8%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 0.5%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 1.4%. 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 falling 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index declining 0.4% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index dropping 0.8% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 1.5%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 1.7%, and gold futures were down 0.3%. Bitcoin climbed 3.3% to $30,851.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.3% to 100.16.

Against the euro, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.3%, the U.S. dollar was down 0.5%, the Swedish krona was down 0.6%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.6%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the euro was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was up 0.5%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, 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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