Investing.com – Denmark equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Personal & Household Goods, Financials and Chemicals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 rose 0.24%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Oersted A/S (CO:ORSTED), which rose 1.84% or 6.80 points to trade at 377.30 at the close. GN Store Nord (CO:GN) added 1.78% or 3.7 points to end at 212.1 and Jyske Bank A/S (CO:JYSK) was up 1.31% or 4.9 points to 377.7 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb), which lost 2.19% or 212 points to trade at 9474 in late trade. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa) declined 1.89% or 175 points to end at 9090 and FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) shed 0.72% or 3.0 points to 415.4.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 61 to 58 and 21 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 2.76% or 1.73 to $60.87 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 2.52% or 1.66 to hit $64.13 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.68% or 9.10 to trade at $1326.10 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.11% to 6.0124, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4512.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 89.69.