Nordic Shares Rose Monday; Ratos Series A Climbed Highest

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Nordic stocks rose Monday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.1%.

Ratos AB Series A was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, gaining 9.8%, and Ratos AB Series B gained 8.3%. Medicover AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares rising 7.8%.

Wilhelm Wilhelmsen Holding ASA Series B posted the largest decline, falling 3.8%, followed by D/S Norden A/S shares, which dropped 3.8%. Shares of Eik Fasteignafelag hf. fell 3.4%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.1%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose 0.6%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.4%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.1%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 0.2%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.1% from the previous close.

In Asia, China's Shanghai Composite Index was up 0.8%, while Japan's Tokyo Stock Exchange was closed.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.9%, while gold futures were up 0.3%. Bitcoin slipped 1.2% to $62,982.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.5% to 100.12.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.2%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.1%, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.4%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.4%, the euro was up 0.3%, the Danish krone was up 0.2%, and the Swedish krona was flat.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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April 29, 2024 12:45 ET (16:45 GMT)

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