Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Real Estate and Personal & Household Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 0.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE), which rose 5.56% or 7.4 points to trade at 140.5 at the close. Ambu A/S (CO:AMBUb) added 2.54% or 3.4 points to end at 137.2 and GN Store Nord (CO:GN) was up 2.51% or 6.0 points to 245.3 in late trade.
Biggest losers included DSV (CO:DSV), which lost 1.59% or 8.2 points to trade at 508.8 in late trade. Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) declined 1.58% or 4.9 points to end at 306.1 and Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) shed 1.49% or 4.0 points to 264.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 75 to 44 and 22 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.30% or 0.16 to $53.41 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.32% or 0.20 to hit $62.28 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.22% or 2.70 to trade at $1243.90 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.07% to 6.5747, while EUR/DKK rose 0.00% to 7.4633.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 96.935.