Investing.com – Denmark stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Personal & Household Goods and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 rose 1.28%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CSE:VWS), which rose 3.94% or 10.1 points to trade at 266.5 at the close. Meanwhile, Ambu A/S (CSE:AMBUb) added 3.41% or 7.3 points to end at 221.4 and AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CSE:MAERSKa) was up 2.68% or 490 points to 18790 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Rockwool International B (CSE:ROCKb), which fell 1.96% or 62 points to trade at 3100 at the close. Novozymes A/S B (CSE:NZYMb) declined 0.06% or 0.3 points to end at 477.4 and GN Store Nord (CSE:GN) was up 0.52% or 2.5 points to 483.3.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 106 to 48 and 12 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was up 1.45% or 1.05 to $73.28 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 1.10% or 0.84 to hit $77.03 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.66% or 29.45 to trade at $1749.35 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.43% to 6.3344, while EUR/DKK rose 0.03% to 7.4366.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.42% at 93.065.