Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were COLOPLAST B (COP:COLOb), which rose 4.24% or 18.2 points to trade at 447.2 at the close. Genmab (COP:GEN) added 0.86% or 5.0 points to end at 586.0 and William Demant Holding (COP:WDH) was up 0.75% or 4.0 points to 536.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nordea Bank AB (COP:NDA), which lost 1.41% or 1.20 points to trade at 83.70 in late trade. TDC A/S (COP:TDC) declined 0.69% or 0.35 points to end at 50.25 and Jyske Bank A/S (COP:JYSK) shed 0.64% or 2.1 points to 324.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 80 to 74 and 6 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.80% or 0.48 to $60.81 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 0.88% or 0.56 to hit $64.44 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 1.97% or 23.20 to trade at $1200.00 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.53% to 6.5431, while EUR/DKK rose 0.05% to 7.4615.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.44% at 94.06.