Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Personal & Household Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb), which rose 3.36% or 310 points to trade at 9544 at the close. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa) added 2.93% or 255 points to end at 8955 and Nordea Bank AB (CO:NDA) was up 0.28% or 0.18 points to 63.62 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS), which lost 1.30% or 5.0 points to trade at 379.6 in late trade. Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) declined 1.26% or 4.4 points to end at 343.5 and Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) shed 1.25% or 5.2 points to 411.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 61 to 59 and 18 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.06% or 0.04 to $68.25 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.14% or 0.10 to hit $73.68 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.73% or 9.90 to trade at $1338.90 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.51% to 6.0637, while EUR/DKK fell 0.00% to 7.4481.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.47% at 90.06.