Denmark shares higher at close of trade; OMX Copenhagen 20 up 0.13%

Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Personal&Household Goods and Chemicals sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 gained 0.13%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CSE:MAERSKb), which rose 2.19% or 240.00 points to trade at 11,180.00 at the close. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CSE:MAERSKa) added 2.18% or 230.00 points to end at 10,780.00 and Pandora A/S (CSE:PNDORA) was up 1.53% or 17.50 points to 1,162.00 in late trade.

Biggest losers included NKT Holding (CSE:NKT), which lost 4.03% or 26.50 points to trade at 630.50 in late trade. Demant A/S (CSE:DEMANT) declined 2.57% or 6.80 points to end at 258.20 and Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CSE:VWS) shed 2.14% or 3.40 points to 155.40.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 73 to 55 and 21 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 1.15% or 0.81 to $71.18 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 1.12% or 0.82 to hit $74.03 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.60% or 15.85 to trade at $2,668.35 a troy ounce.

USD/DKK was down 0.37% to 6.69, while EUR/DKK unchanged 0.03% to 7.46.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 100.33.