
Danish business, with pharmaceutical flagship Novo Nordisk at the forefront, is winning big on a dramatic rise in the US dollar exchange rate.
This year alone, the US dollar has increased in value by nearly 10 percent compared to the Danish krone, and many of the leading companies in Denmark have benefitted from this change.
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