Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Personal & Household Goods, Financials and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.84%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which rose 2.19% or 17.5 points to trade at 817.0 at the close. Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE) added 2.02% or 3.8 points to end at 191.6 and Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb) was up 1.36% or 8.5 points to 633.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN), which lost 1.45% or 3.3 points to trade at 224.8 in late trade. FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) declined 0.61% or 1.5 points to end at 245.9 and TDC A/S (CO:TDC) shed 0.25% or 0.10 points to 39.30.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 100 to 45 and 17 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 2.10% or 0.94 to $45.61 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 2.45% or 1.14 to hit $47.66 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 0.55% or 7.35 to trade at $1323.05 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.14% to 6.6534, while EUR/DKK rose 0.00% to 7.4527.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.18% at 95.52.