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Nordic stocks gained Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.2%.

GN Store Nord A/S was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, surging 19.9%, and DNO ASA increased 9.3%. Bakkafrost P/F rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares increasing 5.8%.

Novonesis A/S Series B posted the largest decline, dropping 7.0%, followed by Kaldvik A/S shares, which fell 5.2%. Shares of Autostore Holdings Ltd. fell 4.9%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 1.1%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, declined 0.4%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 0.3%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 0.8%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 0.1%.

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

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.8%, while gold futures were unchanged. Bitcoin fell 1.4% to $112,705.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index gained 0.4% to 95.89.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.9%, the U.S. dollar was up 0.4%, the Icelandic krona 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 Danish krone was down 0.4%, the euro was down 0.4%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.4%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.4%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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August 21, 2025 12:06 ET (16:06 GMT)

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