Nordic Shares Drop; Paradox Interactive Falls Furthest

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Stocks in the Nordic region fell Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.8%.

Paradox Interactive AB posted the largest decline among large stocks during the session, tumbling 15.2%, followed by Hexpol AB Series B shares, which plunged 13.9%. Shares of Nokia Corp. dropped 9.4%.

ABB Ltd. was the biggest leader, rising 8.4%, and AQ Group AB increased 6.6%. Electrolux Professional AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares gaining 5.2%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 1.2%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, declined 1.2%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.1%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 0.4%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index gaining 0.7%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index rising 0.2% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 2.7%, while gold futures were down 0.3%. Bitcoin fell 4.4% to $85,089.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index was flat at 93.99.

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

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.4%, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, the Danish krone was flat, the euro was down 0.1%, and the Icelandic krona was down 0.2%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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January 29, 2026 12:21 ET (17:21 GMT)