Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Personal & Household Goods and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which rose 7.06% or 28.0 points to trade at 424.4 at the close. Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) added 1.14% or 5.5 points to end at 490.0 and Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH) was up 0.90% or 5.0 points to 558.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Genmab (CO:GEN), which lost 1.71% or 18.0 points to trade at 1034.0 in late trade. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb) declined 0.85% or 90 points to end at 10550 and FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) shed 0.82% or 2.8 points to 340.2.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 63 to 62 and 16 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.37% or 0.21 to $56.81 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.58% or 0.36 to hit $62.80 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.65% or 8.10 to trade at $1256.70 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.37% to 6.3178, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4450.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.21% at 93.60.