Denmark emerged victorious Saturday in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. 20year-old Emmelie de Forest won with folksy ballad "Only Teardrops," which handily beat runners up, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

COPENHAGEN, May 17 (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk , the world's biggest insulin producer, said on Friday it had completed the first phase III trial of a haemophilia drug, N9-GP.

The European newspaper publisher’s new chairman will focus on selling the company’s remaining assets in the Netherlands and Denmark

Curve Watchers Anonymous has its eye on global interest rates. For example, please consider this chart of 10-Year Japanese bonds.click on chart for sharper imageChart courtesy of Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank in Denmark.I have been pay

SeaChangeInternational (NASDAQ: SEAC), a leading global multi-screenvideo software innovator, today announced that Denmark's second largestcable television operator, Stofa,has signed a multi-year service and maintenance contract for its SeaChangeAdre

* Keeps 2013 outlook unchanged (Adds comments, details, background)

The ECB should note that after almost a year of negative rates in Denmark there is scant evidence they have had much impact on bank behaviour

As unemployment in the eurozone hits record highs, the Wall Street Journal reports that more than a dozen unemployed professionals in Copenhagen, Denmark, are experimenting...

By Sean Bellamy McNulty:I began a journey of 15 European cities over 22 days on May 1st, with the first stop being Copenhagen. Although the journey is recreational, you're never off the clock in the world of finance. One never knows where the next gr

COPENHAGEN, May 2 (Reuters) - Denmark's biggest financial institution, Danske Bank, said it expects to sell a large portion of its non-core loan book in Ireland this year and next.

Denmark's Novo Nordisk A/S (NYSE: NVO) posted a 28% rise in its first-quarter net profit and lifted its full-year forecast.Novo Nordisk raised its 2013 sales growth forecast to 9% to 11% in local currencies, versus 8% to 11%.Novo Nordisk's quarterly

COPENHAGEN, May 1 (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk could see the U.S. launch of its biggest drug hope, anew long-acting insulin, delayed until 2018 while it conductsmore tests to satisfy...

COPENHAGEN, May 1 (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk could see the U.S. launch of its biggest drug hope, a new long-acting insulin, delayed until 2018 while it conducts more tests to satisfy regulators, it said on Wednesday.

COPENHAGEN, May 1 (Reuters) - Denmark's Sydbank reported a fall in pretax profit for the first quarter, hurt by an unexpected rise in loan impairments.

COPENHAGEN, May 1 (Reuters) - Jyske Bank, Denmark's second biggest bank by market capitalisation, posted a surprise rise in first-quarter pretax earnings on Wednesday on the back of lower loan impairments and better-than-expected interest income.

COPENHAGEN, May 1 (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk , the world's biggest insulin producer, slightly raised its sales growth outlook for the full year after first quarter operating profit rose more than forecasts.

COPENHAGEN, April 30 (Reuters) - Shares in Danish healthcare product maker Coloplast jumped almost 5 percent on Tuesday after it announced a one-off dividend, rewarding shareholders after quarterly earnings grew in all of its business units.

April 29 (Reuters) - Spain's El Celler De Can Roca edgedpast Denmark's Noma and Italy's Osteria Francescana to be namedthe world's best restaurant on Monday in a ceremony in London.

* Burden on taxpayers greatest in Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, France

Ronald Reagan’s “welfare queen” lives on, shadowing discussions of social spending and austerity, an economist writes.    

Doug BandowLiving the good life on welfare. Even the Europeans recognize that they pay a high price for creating an increasingly dependent society.Denmark has been transfixed by the revelation of a 36-year-old single mother who collects more in benef

With little fuss or political protest — or notice abroad — Denmark has been at work overhauling entitlements, trying to prod Danes into working more or longer or both.    

Last week the UK’s Culture Minister Ed Vaizey announced that he was commissioning a review of the country’s architecture policy, to be led by Sir Terry Farrell along with a number of high profile advisors, including Th

April 8 (Reuters) - Denmark's Lundbeck got a fresh boost for its experimental drug Brintellix on Monday when a clinical trial showed benefits over another medicine called agomelatine that is often used when cheap generic pills fail.

COPENHAGEN, April 4 (Reuters) - Denmark's economy shrank less than initially estimated in the final quarter of 2012, raising propects it was heading towards recovery after years of weak private...

Parents in Denmark were forced to find alternative arrangements for their children as a dispute over working hours led to a lockout of more than 50,000 of the nation's teachers.

COPENHAGEN, April 2 (Reuters) - Iss A/S : * Says wins support for refinancing, 3 years extension of DKK 17.1 billion

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Greenland's new government said Wednesday it doesn't plan to issue any new licenses for offshore oil exploration, an announcement that was welcomed...

COPENHAGEN, March 26 (Reuters) - Denmark's defence ministry said it planned to buy new fighter jets to replace a fleet of 30 operational F-16s.

Wintershall AG, Germany's largest oil and gas producer, said Monday it has made an oil discovery off the coast of Denmark, adding that preliminary estimates indicate around 100 million barrels of oil in place.

March 25 (Reuters) - Danish outsourcing firm ISS has refinanced and amended and extended its debt pile to pave the way for a potential IPO, banking sources said on Monday.

ABIDJAN, March 23 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast has named a consortium of French industrial groups Bollore and Bouygues and Denmark's Maersk as the preferred bidder to operate a new container terminal, an official for one of the companies said.

STOCKHOLM, March 22 (Reuters) - Swedish private equity firm Altor has hired Morgan Stanley to advise it on a sale of Denmark-based ship-fuel supplier OW Bunker, three people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

STOCKHOLM, March 22 (Reuters) - Swedish private equity firm Altor has hired Morgan Stanley to advise it on a sale of Denmark-based ship-fuel supplier OW Bunker, three people familiar with the matter...

COPENHAGEN, March 19 (Reuters) - The Danish government onTuesday lowered growth expectations for the domestic economy in2013 to 0.5-1.0 percent from a previous forecast of 1.2 percent.

Denmark's Lego is building a first toy factory in China to supply growing Asian demand for its iconic plastic bricks and reap profits from what is set to become the world's largest toy market.

COPENHAGEN, March 18 (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, said on Mondaysufferers of Type 2 diabetes achieved 6 percent weight loss withone of their obesity drugs in a trial.

Denmark's Wantr, a company that alerts you when your favorite stores get new items, raised $600,000 in seed funding�today.

Lego A/S, the Billund, Denmark- based toymaker famous for its colorful building bricks, has minted three new billionaires as the company's revenue soared 25 percent...

A Danish government committee Thursday said six of the country's banks should be classified "too big to fail" and held to higher capital and liquidity standards to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.

* Denmark says six financial institutions "too big to fail"

* Shares fall 3.1 percent (Adds comment, background, details)

March 12 (Reuters) - (The following statement was released by the ratingagency)

I think his plan would work great . . . in Denmark. The Danes would run it at the county level, both in terms of financing and distribution of benefits.  Very few would cheat. Even in the US it would probably be better than the current system. IR

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Danish food safety officials ordered a cleanup and better food handling at Noma, one of the world's top restaurants, after more than...

Danish philanthropic association Realdania said Tuesday it is launching an accelerated bookbuilding process to sell around 52 million shares in Denmark's biggest bank, Danske Bank A/S (DANSKE.KO), corresponding to around 5.1% of the bank's issued sha