Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Software & Computer Services, Technology and Healthcare sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.06%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were A.P. Moller - Maersk A (CO:MAERSKa), which rose 1.05% or 100 points to trade at 9620 at the close. Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) added 0.89% or 4.5 points to end at 508.0 and Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) was up 0.77% or 2.4 points to 313.2 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which lost 2.35% or 20.0 points to trade at 829.5 in late trade. DSV (CO:DSV) declined 1.26% or 4.2 points to end at 330.0 and Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) shed 1.20% or 3.3 points to 271.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 76 to 63 and 23 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.81% or 0.86 to $46.78 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.69% or 0.85 to hit $49.30 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.05% or 0.65 to trade at $1326.55 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.09% to 6.6614, while EUR/DKK fell 0.09% to 7.4450.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.19% at 95.66.