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Nordic stocks gained Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.1%.

Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson Series A was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, surging 10.6%, and Sweden-listed Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson Series B jumped 10.5%. Finland-listed Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares adding 9.0%.

Kaldvik A/S posted the largest decline, declining 6.0%, followed by Finland-listed Sampo Oyj Series A shares, which declined 5.5%. Shares of Denmark-listed Sampo Oyj Series A fell 5.1%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index dropped 0.1%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 0.7%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.4%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.5%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index dropping 0.2%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.1% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 3.0%, and gold futures were up 1.4%. Bitcoin climbed 0.8% to $90,036.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.3% to 95.51.

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

Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 1.1%, the Danish krone was up 0.6%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the Icelandic krona was up 0.3%, and the euro was up 0.2%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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January 23, 2026 12:06 ET (17:06 GMT)

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