Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Healthcare, Financials and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 gained 0.17% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Ambu A/S (CO:AMBUb), which rose 2.53% or 3.9 points to trade at 158.2 at the close. Novo Nordisk A/S Class B (CO:NOVOb) added 1.66% or 5.0 points to end at 310.0 and Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) was up 1.02% or 2.9 points to 286.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb), which lost 1.97% or 5.9 points to trade at 294.0 in late trade. Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) declined 1.89% or 5.7 points to end at 295.7 and Oersted A/S (CO:ORSTED) shed 1.85% or 8.50 points to 450.10.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 80 to 39 and 19 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 2.68% or 1.41 to $51.17 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February fell 1.94% or 1.19 to hit $60.26 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.30% or 3.80 to trade at $1243.60 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.52% to 6.6043, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4657.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 97.450.