Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 fell 0.55%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were GN Store Nord (CO:GN), which rose 6.30% or 11.9 points to trade at 200.7 at the close. Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb) added 3.19% or 21.5 points to end at 696.0 and Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) was up 2.10% or 6.0 points to 292.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ISS A/S (CO:ISS), which lost 8.74% or 22.80 points to trade at 238.00 in late trade. Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) declined 7.95% or 49.5 points to end at 573.0 and AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb) shed 4.03% or 540 points to 12850.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 63 to 49 and 23 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.36% or 0.17 to $46.95 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.05% or 0.53 to hit $50.80 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.63% or 8.03 to trade at $1290.93 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.19% to 6.3322, while EUR/DKK fell 0.02% to 7.4357.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 93.54.