Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Industrials, Real Estate and Healthcare sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 rose 0.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa), which rose 3.53% or 430 points to trade at 12600 at the close. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb) added 2.89% or 370 points to end at 13170 and Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) was up 2.11% or 6.3 points to 304.8 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which lost 1.70% or 10.0 points to trade at 577.5 in late trade. Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) declined 1.37% or 8.5 points to end at 612.0 and Genmab (CO:GEN) shed 1.06% or 14.0 points to 1310.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 70 to 55 and 9 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.83% or 0.89 to $47.77 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 1.82% or 0.96 to hit $51.76 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.25% or 3.28 to trade at $1294.88 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.43% to 6.2970, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4381.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 93.03.