Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 gained 0.99%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were GN Store Nord (CO:GN), which rose 3.99% or 7.9 points to trade at 205.9 at the close. Genmab (CO:GEN) added 3.17% or 33.0 points to end at 1074.5 and Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) was up 2.13% or 10.6 points to 509.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which lost 0.66% or 4.0 points to trade at 602.6 in late trade. FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) declined 0.31% or 1.2 points to end at 391.2 and TDC A/S (CO:TDC) shed 0.14% or 0.07 points to 49.25.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 73 to 44 and 19 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.39% or 0.23 to $59.42 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 0.53% or 0.33 to hit $63.05 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 1.53% or 20.40 to trade at $1350.80 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.44% to 6.0055, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4501.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.46% at 89.19.