Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Personal & Household Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN), which rose 3.10% or 10.7 points to trade at 355.5 at the close. Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) added 0.80% or 2.4 points to end at 304.0 and DSV (CO:DSV) was up 0.76% or 3.5 points to 463.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb), which lost 2.64% or 330 points to trade at 12150 in late trade. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa) declined 1.94% or 230 points to end at 11650 and ISS A/S (CO:ISS) shed 1.64% or 4.10 points to 245.20.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 56 to 54 and 26 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.76% or 0.85 to $49.08 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November rose 1.29% or 0.70 to hit $54.97 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.46% or 6.19 to trade at $1326.51 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.72% to 6.2622, while EUR/DKK rose 0.00% to 7.4406.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.63% at 92.47.