Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Healthcare and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.53%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa), which rose 1.31% or 115 points to trade at 8925 at the close. Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) added 1.31% or 3.9 points to end at 300.8 and AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb) was up 1.22% or 114 points to 9466 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb), which lost 1.14% or 8.2 points to trade at 708.6 in late trade. Genmab (CO:GEN) declined 1.06% or 13.0 points to end at 1217.0 and Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) shed 0.86% or 5.8 points to 672.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 66 to 52 and 21 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 2.13% or 1.32 to $63.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 2.07% or 1.39 to hit $68.50 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.22% or 2.90 to trade at $1339.00 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.34% to 6.0425, while EUR/DKK rose 0.00% to 7.4470.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 89.54.