Investing.com – Denmark stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Industrials, Financials and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 gained 1.32%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb), which rose 5.53% or 527 points to trade at 10055 at the close. Meanwhile, AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa) added 5.03% or 450 points to end at 9400 and Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE) was up 2.22% or 4.7 points to 216.1 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN), which fell 0.42% or 1.9 points to trade at 447.2 at the close. TDC A/S (CO:TDC) declined 0.04% or 0.02 points to end at 50.14 and Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb) was up 0.28% or 2.0 points to 710.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 80 to 37 and 20 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.88% or 0.59 to $66.45 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 1.02% or 0.79 to hit $76.77 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.32% or 4.10 to trade at $1296.00 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.18% to 6.3770, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4442.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 94.09.