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Stocks in the Nordic region rose Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.5%.

Embracer Group AB Series B was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, jumping 10.6%, and Torm PLC A rose 8.5%. Frontline PLC rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares rising 8.5%.

Icelandic Salmon A/S posted the largest decline, falling 4.0%, followed by Invisio AB shares, which declined 2.9%. Shares of Icelandair Group Hf. dropped 2.1%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 2.0%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, rose 1.8%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 1.0%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI increased 2.3%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index increasing 1.2%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index adding 0.6% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 1.1% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 2.3%, and gold futures were up 1.2%. Bitcoin climbed 2.7% to $97,188.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index gained 0.4% to 103.21.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 1.0%, the U.S. dollar was up 1.0%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.2%, the Swedish krona was up 0.1%, and the Danish krone was flat.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.8%, the Swedish krona was down 0.9%, the Danish krone was down 0.9%, and the euro was down 0.9%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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January 02, 2025 12:05 ET (17:05 GMT)

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