Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Financials, Personal & Household Goods and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.19%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Ambu A/S (CO:AMBUb), which rose 4.36% or 5.1 points to trade at 122.1 at the close. Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE) added 2.23% or 3.1 points to end at 144.2 and Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) was up 1.03% or 6.4 points to 625.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included GN Store Nord (CO:GN), which lost 4.55% or 12.7 points to trade at 266.6 in late trade. ISS A/S (CO:ISS) declined 1.82% or 4.20 points to end at 226.80 and Genmab (CO:GEN) shed 1.18% or 11.0 points to 924.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 66 to 47 and 23 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was up 1.49% or 0.83 to $56.52 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 1.62% or 1.06 to hit $66.53 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.38% or 4.60 to trade at $1203.80 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.19% to 6.5969, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4619.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 96.87.