Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Personal & Household Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 0.13%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were A.P. Moller - Maersk A (CO:MAERSKa), which rose 3.12% or 285 points to trade at 9420 at the close. Meanwhile, A.P. Moller - Maersk B (CO:MAERSKb) added 2.83% or 270 points to end at 9810 and FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) was up 1.65% or 4.1 points to 252.2 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which fell 2.04% or 11.5 points to trade at 553.5 at the close. Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) declined 0.98% or 2.8 points to end at 284.1 and Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) was down 0.70% or 2.2 points to 312.2.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 101 to 43 and 20 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.99% or 0.47 to $47.88 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 1.26% or 0.62 to hit $49.78 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.02% or 0.25 to trade at $1343.65 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.10% to 6.5818, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4434.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 94.49.