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Nordic stocks increased Thursday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index rising 0.7%.

Gubra A/S was the biggest leader among large stocks during the session, adding 9.7%, and Golden Ocean Group Ltd. increased 5.7%. Lundin Gold Inc. rounded out the top three leaders on Thursday, with shares adding 5.6%.

BoneSupport Holding AB posted the largest decline, declining 7.4%, followed by Volvo Car AB Series B shares, which dropped 6.4%. Shares of A.P. Moeller-Maersk A/S Series B fell 5.9%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index gained 0.9%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, was flat at 4,374.05.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index gained 0.3%, and Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.4%. Shares in Iceland increased, with the OMX Iceland All-Share PI Equity Index increasing 1.7%.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes rose, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 0.4% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.8% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.1%, while gold futures were flat. Bitcoin was up 0.2% to $94,116.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index rose 0.1% to 103.22.

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

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

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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January 09, 2025 12:05 ET (17:05 GMT)

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