Nordic Stocks Decrease; Autostore Holdings Takes Biggest Hit

Dow Jones
25 Apr

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Stocks in the Nordic region fell Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.2%.

Autostore Holdings Ltd. posted the largest decline among large stocks during the session, cratering 28.8%, followed by Afry AB shares, which plunged 14.4%. Shares of Nokia Corp. dropped 9.8%.

New Wave Group AB Series B was the biggest leader, jumping 16.8%, and Beijer Ref AB Series B gained 6.2%. Zealand Pharma A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares gaining 4.7%.

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

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.3%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI fell 0.1%. Iceland's exchange, Nasdaq Iceland, was closed.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 0.4% and the FTSE 100 Index adding 0.1% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.2%, and gold futures were up 1.4%. Bitcoin was down 0.2% to $93,361.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index dropped 0.4% to 96.19.

Against the euro, the Norwegian krone was up 0.6%, the Swedish krona was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.4%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Norwegian krone was up 1.1%, the Swedish krona was up 0.9%, the euro was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was up 0.4%, and the Icelandic krona was up 0.4%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

 

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April 24, 2025 12:06 ET (16:06 GMT)

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