Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Personal & Household Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 rose 1.45%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Tryg A/S (CO:TRYG), which rose 2.39% or 3.0 points to trade at 128.4 at the close. Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH) added 2.19% or 9.3 points to end at 433.2 and Novozymes B (CO:NZYMb) was up 2.10% or 6.2 points to 301.2 in late trade.
Biggest losers included A.P. Moller - Maersk B (CO:MAERSKb), which lost 0.66% or 60 points to trade at 8975 in late trade. GN Store Nord (CO:GN) declined 0.51% or 0.7 points to end at 136.8 and A.P. Moller - Maersk A (CO:MAERSKa) shed 0.45% or 40 points to 8765.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 101 to 47 and 15 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was up 2.31% or 0.78 to $34.53 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 1.37% or 0.50 to hit $37.07 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 0.26% or 3.20 to trade at $1231.20 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.27% to 6.8772, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4587.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.22% at 98.50.