Investing.com – Denmark stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Personal & Household Goods, Consumer Goods and Healthcare sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 2.18% to hit a new 3-months high.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which rose 17.63% or 50.3 points to trade at 335.6 at the close. Meanwhile, Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) added 4.64% or 28.4 points to end at 640.2 and Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) was up 4.12% or 11.5 points to 290.4 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb), which fell 0.19% or 1.4 points to trade at 750.8 at the close. Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) declined 0.04% or 0.2 points to end at 533.2 and AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb) was up 0.45% or 40 points to 8856.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 88 to 43 and 21 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.25% or 0.68 to $53.88 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.50% or 0.31 to hit $62.20 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.06% or 0.85 to trade at $1318.45 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.26% to 6.5435, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4649.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 95.803.