Nordic Shares Decrease; Zealand Pharma Takes Biggest Hit

Dow Jones
Jun 18, 2025

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Nordic stocks declined Tuesday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 1.5%.

Zealand Pharma A/S posted the largest decline among large stocks during the session, falling 9.2%, followed by Norbit ASA shares, which dropped 4.6%. Shares of Bakkafrost P/F declined 4.3%.

Rusta AB was the biggest leader, adding 8.0%, and Torm PLC gained 5.4%. International Petroleum Corp. rounded out the top three leaders on Tuesday, with shares adding 4.9%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 2.1%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 1.0%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index dropped 1.0%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 0.2%. Iceland's exchange, Nasdaq Iceland, was closed.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes fell, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index falling 0.9% and the FTSE 100 Index falling 0.5% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 2.7%, while gold futures were down 0.6%. Bitcoin slipped 4.1% to $104,251.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.2% to 95.12.

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

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

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

 

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June 17, 2025 12:06 ET (16:06 GMT)

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