Investing.com – Denmark stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Personal & Household Goods, Oil & Gas and Consumer Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 gained 0.92%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which rose 5.73% or 14.9 points to trade at 275.1 at the close. Meanwhile, ISS A/S (CO:ISS) added 3.18% or 6.00 points to end at 194.60 and Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) was up 2.21% or 11.2 points to 518.6 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Genmab (CO:GEN), which fell 2.91% or 30.5 points to trade at 1018.5 at the close. Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH) declined 0.87% or 5.4 points to end at 614.4 and Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE) was down 0.71% or 0.9 points to 126.5.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 76 to 42 and 22 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for February delivery was up 2.90% or 1.51 to $53.58 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 2.19% or 1.34 to hit $62.52 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.76% or 9.85 to trade at $1282.45 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.29% to 6.5730, while EUR/DKK fell 0.03% to 7.4649.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.33% at 96.028.