Nordic stocks dropped Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.5%.
Surgical Science Sweden AB posted the largest decline during the session, falling 5.9%, followed by Bavarian Nordic A/S shares, which fell 4.9%. Shares of Brim hf. fell 4.1%.
Elekta AB Series B was the biggest leader, increasing 5.9%, and Sagax AB Series A gained 5.2%. Munters Group AB rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares rising 4.9%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.7%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.1%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.1%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.3%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index falling 0.8%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index steady and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.1% from the previous close.
Stock indexes in Asia were down, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index dropping 2.1% and China's Shanghai Composite Index falling 0.6%.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.1%, while gold futures were down 0.5%. Bitcoin was unchanged at $26,002.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index gained 0.1% to 98.63.
Against the euro, the Icelandic krona was up 0.6%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.3%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, and the Swedish krona was down 0.4%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 0.4%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.2%, the euro was down 0.1%, the Danish krone was down 0.1%, and the Swedish 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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