Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Personal & Household Goods and Healthcare sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 0.79%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb), which rose 5.44% or 422 points to trade at 8174 at the close. Meanwhile, Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE) added 1.01% or 1.2 points to end at 125.3 and Jyske Bank A/S (CO:JYSK) was up 0.59% or 1.6 points to 274.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb), which fell 3.06% or 22.6 points to trade at 715.0 at the close. FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) declined 2.82% or 8.9 points to end at 307.1 and GN Store Nord (CO:GN) was down 2.77% or 8.8 points to 308.9.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 74 to 53 and 17 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.11% or 0.07 to $62.53 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.63% or 0.44 to hit $69.75 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.24% or 3.15 to trade at $1292.15 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.15% to 6.6555, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4645.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 96.907.