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Stocks in the Nordic region gained Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 1.5%.
Novo Nordisk A/S was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, rising 6.5%, and Tieto Oyj increased 5.9%. Solstad Maritime ASA rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares rising 5.8%.
Alvotech SDR posted the largest decline, falling 6.4%, followed by AddLife AB shares, which dropped 6.0%. Shares of Sivers Semiconductors AB dropped 4.7%.
In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 2.6%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 1.4%.
Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.7%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI gained 1.1%. Shares in Iceland decreased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index declining 0.8%.
Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index gaining 1.4% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 1.6% from the previous close.
In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were down 0.8%, while gold futures were up 1.5%. Bitcoin rose 1.2% to $76,423.
On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.9% to 95.03.
Against the euro, the Swedish krona was up 0.3%, the Norwegian krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Danish krone was flat, and the U.S. dollar was down 0.5%.
Against the U.S. dollar, the Swedish krona was up 0.8%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.5%, the euro was up 0.5%, the Danish krone was up 0.5%, and the Icelandic krona was up 0.5%.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet
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April 30, 2026 12:06 ET (16:06 GMT)
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