Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Personal & Household Goods, Oil & Gas and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 rose 0.92%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which rose 5.73% or 14.9 points to trade at 275.1 at the close. ISS A/S (CO:ISS) added 3.18% or 6.00 points to end at 194.60 and Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) was up 2.21% or 11.2 points to 518.6 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Genmab (CO:GEN), which lost 2.91% or 30.5 points to trade at 1018.5 in late trade. Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH) declined 0.87% or 5.4 points to end at 614.4 and Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE) shed 0.71% or 0.9 points to 126.5.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 76 to 42 and 22 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 2.90% or 1.51 to $53.58 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 2.19% or 1.34 to hit $62.52 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.78% or 10.05 to trade at $1282.25 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.28% to 6.5720, while EUR/DKK fell 0.03% to 7.4649.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.33% at 96.030.