Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate, Personal & Household Goods and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.30% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Nets A/S (CO:NETS), which rose 2.41% or 3.00 points to trade at 127.50 at the close. Dong Energy A/S (CO:DENERG) added 1.76% or 4.60 points to end at 265.60 and Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) was up 1.58% or 7.4 points to 475.4 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb), which lost 1.69% or 4.1 points to trade at 238.6 in late trade. Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) declined 1.58% or 4.4 points to end at 274.6 and Genmab (CO:GEN) shed 1.30% or 15.0 points to 1136.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 62 to 58 and 19 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 1.07% or 0.56 to $53.05 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 1.18% or 0.64 to hit $55.10 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.19% or 2.20 to trade at $1131.00 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.20% to 7.1167, while EUR/DKK fell 0.00% to 7.4337.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.04% at 103.00.