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Stocks in the Nordic region dropped Monday, with the OMX Nordic 40 Index declining 0.5%.

Rusta AB posted the largest decline among large stocks during the session, dropping 4.3%, followed by Vestas Wind Systems A/S shares, which dropped 3.8%. Shares of Amaroq Minerals Ltd. DR declined 3.6%.

Topdanmark A/S was the biggest leader, soaring 22.2%, and TGS ASA increased 5.5%. Alm. Brand A/S rounded out the top three leaders on Monday, with shares adding 4.3%.

In Denmark, the OMX Copenhagen 20 Index declined 0.9%, while the OMX Helsinki 25 Index, which tracks Finland's most-traded stocks, increased 0.1%.

Stocks on Sweden's OMX Stockholm 30 Index declined 0.1%, while Norway's Oslo Exchange Benchmark Index_GI rose 0.1%. Iceland's exchange, Nasdaq Iceland, was closed.

Elsewhere in Europe, indexes were mixed, with the STOXX Europe 600 Index rising 0.1% and the FTSE 100 Index dropping 0.1% from the previous close.

In commodities news, Brent crude oil futures were up 1.0%, while gold futures were down 0.9%. Bitcoin fell 1.5% to $65,505.

On the currency front, the WSJ Dollar Index was flat at 100.12.

Against the euro, the Danish krone was flat, the Icelandic krona was flat, the Swedish krona was down 0.1%, the U.S. dollar was down 0.2%, and the Norwegian krone was down 0.4%.

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

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet


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06-17-24 1222ET