Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Industrials, Oil & Gas and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were A.P. Moller - Maersk B (CO:MAERSKb), which rose 3.43% or 340 points to trade at 10240 at the close. A.P. Moller - Maersk A (CO:MAERSKa) added 3.27% or 310 points to end at 9790 and FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) was up 2.98% or 7.5 points to 259.1 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb), which lost 1.20% or 3.7 points to trade at 304.0 in late trade. Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) declined 0.92% or 7.5 points to end at 804.5 and Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH) shed 0.65% or 2.6 points to 397.1.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 90 to 52 and 23 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 2.36% or 1.07 to $46.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 1.77% or 0.83 to hit $47.66 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 1.04% or 13.85 to trade at $1345.25 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.32% to 6.6407, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4549.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.30% at 95.17.