Investing.com – Denmark stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Personal & Household Goods, Financials and Consumer Goods sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 added 0.84%.
The best performers 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. Meanwhile, 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.
The worst performers of the session were Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN), which fell 1.45% or 3.3 points to trade at 224.8 at the close. FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) declined 0.61% or 1.5 points to end at 245.9 and TDC A/S (CO:TDC) was down 0.25% or 0.10 points to 39.30.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 100 to 45 and 17 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was up 2.06% or 0.92 to $45.59 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 2.43% or 1.13 to hit $47.65 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 6.6535, while EUR/DKK rose 0.00% to 7.4527.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.18% at 95.52.