Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Chemicals and Software & Computer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 fell 1.66% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN), which rose 1.28% or 4.3 points to trade at 341.0 at the close. Oersted A/S (CO:ORSTED) fell 0.28% or 1.10 points to end at 391.90 and TDC A/S (CO:TDC) was down 0.28% or 0.14 points to 49.36 in late trade.
Biggest losers included GN Store Nord (CO:GN), which lost 4.94% or 10.5 points to trade at 202.1 in late trade. Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) declined 4.86% or 21.6 points to end at 422.4 and Genmab (CO:GEN) shed 2.95% or 37.0 points to 1219.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 100 to 30 and 13 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.44% or 0.28 to $63.23 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.54% or 0.37 to hit $67.75 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.17% or 2.30 to trade at $1339.60 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.22% to 6.0588, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4501.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 89.71.