Investing.com – Denmark stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Personal & Household Goods, Consumer Goods and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.70%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Oersted A/S (CO:ORSTED), which rose 7.09% or 27.30 points to trade at 412.50 at the close. Meanwhile, FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) added 4.32% or 17.4 points to end at 420.4 and Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) was up 3.69% or 12.6 points to 354.2 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Genmab (CO:GEN), which fell 1.46% or 15.5 points to trade at 1045.0 at the close. Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) declined 1.39% or 5.3 points to end at 375.0 and GN Store Nord (CO:GN) was down 1.23% or 3.8 points to 305.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 71 to 49 and 20 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was down 0.03% or 0.02 to $66.92 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 0.04% or 0.03 to hit $72.25 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.01% or 0.10 to trade at $1220.90 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.43% to 6.4486, while EUR/DKK rose 0.00% to 7.4552.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.31% at 95.24.