Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Healthcare and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 fell 0.51%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb), which rose 2.56% or 260 points to trade at 10400 at the close. Meanwhile, AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa) added 1.83% or 180 points to end at 10030 and DSV (CO:DSV) was up 0.64% or 3.1 points to 484.1 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS), which fell 4.77% or 17.0 points to trade at 339.5 at the close. Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) declined 2.18% or 7.5 points to end at 336.3 and Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) was down 1.81% or 6.3 points to 342.5.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 80 to 33 and 17 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.47% or 0.85 to $58.87 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.22% or 0.14 to hit $63.69 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.34% or 4.42 to trade at $1287.78 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.68% to 6.2378, while EUR/DKK unchanged 0.00% to 7.4425.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.39% at 92.68.