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Nordic stocks declined Friday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.4%.

Hexagon AB Series B posted the largest decline among large stocks during the session, dropping 9.6%, followed by HMS Networks AB shares, which declined 8.3%. Shares of Modern Times Group MTG AB Cl A dropped 6.1%.

Frontline PLC was the biggest leader, adding 6.8%, and Arion Banki hf. SDR gained 6.7%. Stora Enso Oyj Series A $(SEK.AU)$ rounded out the top three leaders on Friday, with shares gaining 6.6%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index increased 1.6%, and the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, gained 0.7%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index fell 0.1%, while 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 were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index declining 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index increasing 0.6% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 0.7%, and gold futures were up 2.5%. Bitcoin rose 3.6% to $82,429.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index fell 0.7% to 96.94.

Against the euro, the Danish krone was flat, the Norwegian krone was down 0.1%, the Icelandic krona was down 0.1%, the Swedish krona was down 0.8%, and the U.S. dollar was down 1.1%.

Against the U.S. dollar, the Danish krone was up 1.1%, the euro was up 1.1%, the Icelandic krona was up 1.0%, the Norwegian krone was up 0.9%, and the Swedish krona was up 0.4%.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet

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April 11, 2025 12:05 ET (16:05 GMT)

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