Investing.com – Denmark stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Financials and Personal & Household Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 rose 0.47%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CSE:MAERSKb), which rose 1.97% or 350 points to trade at 18145 at the close. Meanwhile, Rockwool International B (CSE:ROCKb) added 1.88% or 56 points to end at 3031 and DSV Panalpina A/S (CSE:DSV) was up 1.67% or 24.0 points to 1459.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Demant A/S (CSE:DEMANT), which fell 1.55% or 5.4 points to trade at 342.4 at the close. GN Store Nord (CSE:GN) declined 1.43% or 7.8 points to end at 536.0 and Ambu A/S (CSE:AMBUb) was down 1.36% or 3.2 points to 231.4.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 75 to 69 and 14 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.66% or 1.18 to $72.47 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 1.20% or 0.88 to hit $74.39 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.80% or 14.10 to trade at $1783.10 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.33% to 6.2459, while EUR/DKK rose 0.03% to 7.4364.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 91.927.