Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Personal & Household Goods, Consumer Goods and Chemicals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 gained 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which rose 7.11% or 47.0 points to trade at 708.0 at the close. Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) added 2.18% or 8.2 points to end at 384.2 and Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) was up 1.16% or 3.2 points to 278.1 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nordea Bank AB (CO:NDA), which lost 5.41% or 4.65 points to trade at 81.30 in late trade. GN Store Nord (CO:GN) declined 3.16% or 6.2 points to end at 189.7 and DSV (CO:DSV) shed 2.30% or 9.7 points to 411.4.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 61 to 47 and 21 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 0.34% or 0.16 to $47.16 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.20% or 0.10 to hit $49.60 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.31% or 3.85 to trade at $1245.85 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.99% to 6.3933, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4366.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.61% at 94.06.