Nordic Stocks Gain; Bufab Climbs Highest

Dow Jones
15 Apr

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Stocks in the Nordic region rose Monday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 3.8%.

Bufab AB was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, gaining 8.2%, and Storskogen Group AB Series B increased 7.2%. Systemair AB rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares rising 6.9%.

Stora Enso Oyj Series A $(SEK.AU)$ posted the largest decline, dropping 3.4%, followed by Icelandic Salmon A/S shares, which declined 3.0%. Shares of Arion Banki hf. SDR declined 2.5%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 3.0%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 2.5%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 2.7%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 1.9%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 1.1%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 2.7% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 2.1% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.3%, and gold futures were down 0.9%. Bitcoin climbed 0.4% to $84,260.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.2% to 96.51.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.6%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%, the Swedish krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.1%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.6%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was up 0.1%, the euro was up 0.1%, and the Swedish krona was flat.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

 

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