Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Financials and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 1.53% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which rose 0.26% or 1.6 points to trade at 608.4 at the close. TDC A/S (CO:TDC) fell 0.02% or 0.01 points to end at 49.69 and Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb) was down 0.37% or 2.6 points to 706.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nordea Bank AB (CO:NDA), which lost 2.52% or 1.64 points to trade at 63.38 in late trade. Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) declined 2.18% or 6.7 points to end at 298.1 and Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE) shed 2.14% or 5.0 points to 228.6.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 93 to 29 and 12 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 1.12% or 0.73 to $64.44 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.63% or 0.44 to hit $69.03 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.40% or 5.30 to trade at $1326.80 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.28% to 6.0545, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4484.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 89.49.