Investing.com – Denmark stocks were higher after the close on Friday, 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 gained 1.71%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CSE:VWS), which rose 5.42% or 12.6 points to trade at 245.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Orsted A/S (CSE:ORSTED) added 4.28% or 36.60 points to end at 892.40 and Simcorp A/S (CSE:SIM) was up 3.61% or 28.6 points to 820.6 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CSE:MAERSKb), which fell 1.42% or 230 points to trade at 15985 at the close. DSV Panalpina A/S (CSE:DSV) declined 0.88% or 12.5 points to end at 1405.5 and Chr Hansen Holding A/S (CSE:CHRH) was down 0.25% or 1.4 points to 559.2.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 100 to 46 and 13 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for June delivery was up 0.23% or 0.15 to $64.86 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.32% or 0.22 to hit $68.31 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 1.02% or 18.60 to trade at $1834.30 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.69% to 6.1196, while EUR/DKK rose 0.04% to 7.4360.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.73% at 90.275.