Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Chemicals, Oil & Gas and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.66%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Jyske Bank A/S (CO:JYSK), which rose 2.07% or 6.5 points to trade at 320.4 at the close. Nordea Bank AB (CO:NDA) added 1.93% or 1.20 points to end at 63.30 and Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) was up 1.27% or 10.5 points to 840.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS), which lost 1.47% or 3.7 points to trade at 247.3 in late trade. Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH) declined 0.66% or 2.7 points to end at 406.6 and Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) shed 0.59% or 3.0 points to 505.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 90 to 52 and 15 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was down 1.04% or 0.49 to $46.49 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 1.35% or 0.67 to hit $48.78 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.55% or 7.25 to trade at $1319.85 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.36% to 6.6777, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4440.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.50% at 96.01.