Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Healthcare, Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 fell 0.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS), which rose 2.03% or 7.4 points to trade at 371.7 at the close. Oersted A/S (CO:ORSTED) added 1.63% or 6.30 points to end at 392.80 and Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) was up 1.50% or 10.2 points to 688.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb), which lost 1.97% or 184 points to trade at 9170 in late trade. Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH) declined 1.91% or 10.6 points to end at 543.0 and Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) shed 1.86% or 5.6 points to 296.1.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 67 to 46 and 26 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.67% or 0.45 to $67.52 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 1.01% or 0.73 to hit $72.75 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.57% or 7.60 to trade at $1349.50 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.04% to 6.0380, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4474.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 89.47.