Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Personal & Household Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 rose 0.73%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Genmab (CO:GEN), which rose 2.16% or 26.0 points to trade at 1228.0 at the close. Jyske Bank A/S (CO:JYSK) added 2.01% or 5.4 points to end at 273.7 and Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) was up 1.98% or 9.2 points to 473.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included TDC A/S (CO:TDC), which lost 0.95% or 0.33 points to trade at 34.49 in late trade. FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) declined 0.08% or 0.2 points to end at 264.4 and GN Store Nord (CO:GN) 0.00% or 0.0 points to 125.2.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 97 to 42 and 21 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 2.30% or 0.94 to $41.77 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 2.16% or 0.93 to hit $44.03 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.33% or 4.55 to trade at $1369.25 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.14% to 6.6801, while EUR/DKK fell 0.00% to 7.4376.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.19% at 95.67.