Stocks in the Nordic region fell Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.8%.
BioArctic AB Series B posted the largest decline among large stocks during the session, falling 9.6%, followed by Evolution Gaming Group AB shares, which declined 9.4%. Shares of Nibe Industrier AB Series B dropped 8.0%.
Schibsted ASA Series B was the biggest leader, gaining 8.0%, and Schibsted ASA increased 7.2%. Tomra Systems ASA rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares increasing 4.9%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.3%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, dropped 0.7%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index fell 0.6%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.7%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 0.5%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index flat and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.6% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index up 0.2% and China's Shanghai Composite Index down 0.9%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.7%, and gold futures were down 0.9%. Bitcoin slipped 3.0% to $63,386.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.4% to 99.05.
Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was down 0.3%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.3%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.5%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Danish krone was down 0.5%, the euro was down 0.5%, the Norwegian krone was down 0.7%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.7%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.9%.
-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.
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