Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Personal & Household Goods, Healthcare and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 fell 0.26%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Ambu A/S (CO:AMBUb), which rose 5.13% or 6.1 points to trade at 125.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Genmab (CO:GEN) added 2.90% or 27.0 points to end at 957.0 and GN Store Nord (CO:GN) was up 1.49% or 3.6 points to 245.3 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb), which fell 1.13% or 3.5 points to trade at 305.8 at the close. Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) declined 1.11% or 2.9 points to end at 258.6 and Novo Nordisk A/S Class B (CO:NOVOb) was down 1.04% or 3.0 points to 286.5.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 60 to 58 and 16 ended unchanged.
Shares in Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) fell to 52-week lows; losing 1.11% or 2.9 to 258.6.
Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.37% or 0.75 to $53.88 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January fell 1.26% or 0.80 to hit $62.68 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.02% or 0.20 to trade at $1227.80 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.18% to 6.5427, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4611.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 96.390.