Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Healthcare and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 1.28%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which rose 3.09% or 12.2 points to trade at 407.2 at the close. Meanwhile, Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) added 1.80% or 6.6 points to end at 372.7 and Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) was up 1.15% or 4.3 points to 376.8 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were GN Store Nord (CO:GN), which fell 3.86% or 12.5 points to trade at 311.0 at the close. FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) declined 3.83% or 15.0 points to end at 376.3 and Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) was down 2.49% or 8.5 points to 333.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 83 to 42 and 16 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was down 3.42% or 2.29 to $64.75 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 2.44% or 1.77 to hit $70.69 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.36% or 16.30 to trade at $1184.40 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.03% to 6.5726, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4553.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 96.62.