Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Consumer Goods and Personal & Household Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 fell 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which rose 2.64% or 11.3 points to trade at 439.9 at the close. Meanwhile, Oersted A/S (CO:ORSTED) added 1.07% or 4.10 points to end at 386.20 and Genmab (CO:GEN) was up 0.64% or 8.0 points to 1263.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb), which fell 1.81% or 5.8 points to trade at 314.2 at the close. Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE) declined 1.45% or 3.6 points to end at 244.1 and Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb) was down 1.28% or 9.4 points to 723.8.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 70 to 53 and 15 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was up 0.15% or 0.09 to $60.80 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May rose 0.14% or 0.09 to hit $64.73 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 0.14% or 1.90 to trade at $1325.20 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.12% to 6.0196, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4493.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 89.69.