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Stocks in the Nordic region increased Monday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.1%.
A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series B was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, rising 7.7%, and A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series A rose 7.4%. New Wave Group AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares increasing 5.1%.
SoftwareONE Holding AG posted the largest decline, declining 8.8%, followed by Sinch AB shares, which dropped 8.1%. Shares of Netcompany Group A/S dropped 4.3%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index fell 0.3%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland’s most-traded stocks, dropped 0.2%.
Stocks on Sweden’s OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.3%, and Norway’s Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 0.4%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index adding 0.5%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.2% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.2% from the previous close.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were unchanged, while gold futures were up 2.8%. Bitcoin rose 1.8% to $92,228.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.2% to 96.30.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.3%, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, the Norwegian krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.3%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Icelandic krona was up 0.5%, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the euro was up 0.3%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.3%, and the Danish krone was down 0.2%.
