Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Chemicals, Personal & Household Goods and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 gained 1.46%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS), which rose 3.64% or 10.3 points to trade at 293.1 at the close. Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) added 3.35% or 8.6 points to end at 265.3 and AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb) was up 3.18% or 252 points to 8184 in late trade.
Biggest losers included DSV (CO:DSV), which lost 0.23% or 1.0 points to trade at 429.2 in late trade. Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH) declined 0.03% or 0.2 points to end at 576.6 and GN Store Nord (CO:GN) gained 0.66% or 1.6 points to 243.3.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 95 to 36 and 16 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 1.64% or 0.73 to $45.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.82% or 0.43 to hit $53.16 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.05% or 0.65 to trade at $1281.75 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.05% to 6.5277, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4678.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 95.950.