Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Consumer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb), which rose 2.98% or 325 points to trade at 11225 at the close. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa) added 2.78% or 290 points to end at 10710 and Oersted A/S (CO:ORSTED) was up 2.19% or 7.30 points to 341.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which lost 2.72% or 11.8 points to trade at 421.8 in late trade. Genmab (CO:GEN) declined 2.13% or 22.5 points to end at 1035.0 and Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) shed 1.86% or 5.9 points to 311.3.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 95 to 32 and 18 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.65% or 0.40 to $62.03 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March rose 0.28% or 0.19 to hit $68.03 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.14% or 1.90 to trade at $1320.40 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.44% to 6.1694, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4459.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 91.63.