Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Personal & Household Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 rose 1.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which rose 9.87% or 48.1 points to trade at 535.5 at the close. A.P. Moller - Maersk B (CO:MAERSKb) added 2.81% or 255 points to end at 9345 and FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) was up 2.78% or 6.8 points to 251.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Genmab (CO:GEN), which lost 1.89% or 21.0 points to trade at 1092.0 in late trade. Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb) declined 1.71% or 11.0 points to end at 632.5 and Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) shed 0.78% or 2.1 points to 268.4.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 99 to 36 and 23 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 2.80% or 1.31 to $48.10 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.87% or 0.93 to hit $50.78 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.52% or 6.95 to trade at $1355.75 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.39% to 6.5658, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4415.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.44% at 94.27.