Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Personal & Household Goods and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.85%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb), which rose 3.46% or 26.4 points to trade at 790.0 at the close. GN Store Nord (CO:GN) added 2.99% or 9.3 points to end at 320.3 and DSV (CO:DSV) was up 2.34% or 13.4 points to 586.6 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ISS A/S (CO:ISS), which lost 3.89% or 8.80 points to trade at 217.60 in late trade. Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) declined 1.74% or 7.1 points to end at 400.1 and Novo Nordisk A/S Class B (CO:NOVOb) gained 0.02% or 0.1 points to 313.9.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 70 to 45 and 18 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.54% or 0.35 to $65.36 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.62% or 0.44 to hit $71.20 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.10% or 1.20 to trade at $1186.20 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.24% to 6.5550, while EUR/DKK rose 0.03% to 7.4572.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 96.48.