Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Personal & Household Goods, Chemicals and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 gained 0.70%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which rose 3.47% or 22.5 points to trade at 671.0 at the close. DSV (CO:DSV) added 1.60% or 6.2 points to end at 394.7 and Nets A/S (CO:NETS) was up 1.36% or 1.80 points to 134.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa), which lost 0.43% or 50 points to trade at 11700 in late trade. Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) declined 0.33% or 2.0 points to end at 603.5 and AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb) shed 0.32% or 40 points to 12300.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 83 to 37 and 16 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 2.19% or 1.08 to $50.43 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 2.19% or 1.15 to hit $53.66 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.12% or 1.53 to trade at $1251.27 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.74% to 6.6523, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4429.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.61% at 97.17.