Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrials, Personal & Household Goods and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 fell 0.90%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb), which rose 2.60% or 14.0 points to trade at 552.0 at the close. Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) added 0.62% or 1.8 points to end at 292.4 and Genmab (CO:GEN) was up 0.42% or 6.0 points to 1438.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS), which lost 3.47% or 14.0 points to trade at 389.2 in late trade. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb) declined 2.79% or 390 points to end at 13610 and AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa) shed 2.41% or 320 points to 12980.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 81 to 37 and 19 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 2.39% or 1.12 to $45.80 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 2.31% or 1.14 to hit $48.16 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.55% or 6.82 to trade at $1252.32 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.23% to 6.3784, while EUR/DKK rose 0.00% to 7.4362.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.84.