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Nordic stocks rose Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.3%.

BW LPG Ltd. was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, gaining 8.4%, and Sweden-listed Nokia Corp. rose 7.3%. Finland-listed Nokia Corp. rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares increasing 6.7%.

Evolution Gaming Group AB posted the largest decline, dropping 6.3%, followed by Stolt-Nielsen Ltd. shares, which fell 4.8%. Shares of Norconsult ASA dropped 3.6%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 0.1%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 1.4%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index rose 0.2%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.8%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index rising 0.1%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index increasing 0.9% and the FTSE 100 Index gaining 1.0% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.5%, and gold futures were up 1.8%. Bitcoin was up 1.2% to $105,449.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index declined 0.1% to 102.00.

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

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

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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January 30, 2025 12:05 ET (17:05 GMT)

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