Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.61%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which rose 3.16% or 13.3 points to trade at 434.5 at the close. Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) added 2.04% or 7.7 points to end at 385.0 and Jyske Bank A/S (CO:JYSK) was up 1.69% or 5.9 points to 354.9 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which lost 2.35% or 9.0 points to trade at 373.9 in late trade. Genmab (CO:GEN) declined 0.57% or 6.0 points to end at 1039.5 and Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) shed 0.38% or 2.6 points to 677.2.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 73 to 52 and 12 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.05% or 0.69 to $66.11 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.64% or 0.46 to hit $72.67 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.18% or 2.20 to trade at $1196.80 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.49% to 6.4642, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4595.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.33% at 95.36.