Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Healthcare and Chemicals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN), which rose 2.42% or 9.9 points to trade at 418.3 at the close. Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) added 1.85% or 5.8 points to end at 320.0 and Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) was up 1.26% or 3.9 points to 308.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which lost 3.81% or 21.4 points to trade at 539.6 in late trade. Genmab (CO:GEN) declined 2.00% or 25.0 points to end at 1226.0 and Nordea Bank AB (CO:NDA) shed 1.78% or 1.16 points to 64.12.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 65 to 57 and 13 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.43% or 0.31 to $71.00 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $78.43 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.01% or 0.10 to trade at $1290.40 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.29% to 6.3112, while EUR/DKK fell 0.02% to 7.4482.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 93.27.