Nordic Shares Rise; Icelandair Group Climbs Highest

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Nordic stocks gained Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.7%.

Icelandair Group Hf. was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, jumping 13.8%, and Autoliv Inc. SDR rose 9.9%. Indutrade AB rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares gaining 8.5%.

Solstad Maritime ASA posted the largest decline, dropping 9.5%, followed by International Petroleum Corp. shares, which dropped 8.3%. Shares of Equinor ASA dropped 7.8%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 0.8%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose 0.9%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 2.0%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI dropped 2.4%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 0.7%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index adding 1.6% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.7% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 10.6%, while gold futures were up 1.8%. Bitcoin was up 3.4% to $77,962.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.3% to 94.97.

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

Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was up 0.1%, the euro was up 0.1%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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April 17, 2026 12:21 ET (16:21 GMT)