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Nordic stocks increased Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.1%.

Kinnevik AB Series B was the biggest leader during the session, adding 7.5%, and Kinnevik AB Series A rose 6.4%. NCC AB Series B rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares rising 5.3%.

Camurus AB posted the largest decline, plunging 10.7%, followed by Embracer Group AB Series B shares, which dropped 5.3%. Shares of BioArctic AB Series B declined 4.2%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 0.1%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, fell 0.2%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index increased 0.5%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.4%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index adding 0.6%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index adding 0.6% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 0.2% from the previous close.

Stock indexes in Asia were mixed, with Japan's NIKKEI 225 Index down 0.0% and China's Shanghai Composite Index up 0.4%.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.6%, and gold futures were up 0.5%. Bitcoin slipped 1.5% to $42,051.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index increased 0.1% to 98.08.

Against the euro, the U.S. dollar was up 0.2%, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%, and the Swedish krona was down 0.3%.

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

-This article was automatically generated by MarketWatch using technology from Automated Insights. Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet.

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