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Nordic stocks gained Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.6%.

BW Energy Ltd. was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, increasing 5.7%, and ALK-Abello A/S Series B increased 5.0%. HMS Networks AB rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares rising 4.8%.

Kaldvik A/S posted the largest decline, cratering 28.4%, followed by Icelandic Salmon A/S shares, which dropped 8.5%. Shares of Solstad Maritime ASA fell 5.7%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 0.1%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.9%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.5%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.9%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.5%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.6% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 2.1%, and gold futures were up 1.1%. Bitcoin slipped 2.7% to $65,624.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.1% to 94.69.

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

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the Swedish krona was up 0.4%, the Danish krone was up 0.2%, the euro was up 0.2%, and the Icelandic krona was up 0.1%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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February 27, 2026 12:06 ET (17:06 GMT)

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