Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Real Estate and Personal & Household Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE), which rose 5.56% or 7.4 points to trade at 140.5 at the close. Meanwhile, Ambu A/S (CO:AMBUb) added 2.54% or 3.4 points to end at 137.2 and GN Store Nord (CO:GN) was up 2.51% or 6.0 points to 245.3 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were DSV (CO:DSV), which fell 1.59% or 8.2 points to trade at 508.8 at the close. Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) declined 1.58% or 4.9 points to end at 306.1 and Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) was down 1.49% or 4.0 points to 264.6.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 75 to 44 and 22 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.26% or 0.14 to $53.39 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.31% or 0.19 to hit $62.27 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.22% or 2.80 to trade at $1243.80 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.07% to 6.5747, while EUR/DKK rose 0.00% to 7.4633.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 96.935.