Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Healthcare, Personal & Household Goods and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 1.39%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Genmab (CO:GEN), which rose 6.80% or 77.0 points to trade at 1210.0 at the close. GN Store Nord (CO:GN) added 5.43% or 10.9 points to end at 211.7 and FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) was up 2.93% or 10.4 points to 365.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE), which lost 0.51% or 1.2 points to trade at 234.0 in late trade. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa) declined 0.20% or 20 points to end at 10160 and Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb) gained 0.20% or 1.5 points to 745.5.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 85 to 31 and 16 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for December delivery was down 0.29% or 0.16 to $55.17 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 0.65% or 0.40 to hit $61.47 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.28% or 3.57 to trade at $1281.27 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.12% to 6.3196, while EUR/DKK fell 0.02% to 7.4416.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 93.76.