Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Industrials and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 1.56%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Pandora A/S (CSE:PNDORA), which rose 0.84% or 2.6 points to trade at 313.7 at the close. Meanwhile, Ambu A/S (CSE:AMBUb) fell 0.41% or 0.7 points to end at 159.2 and ISS A/S (CSE:ISS) was down 0.46% or 0.70 points to 150.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Simcorp A/S (CSE:SIM), which fell 3.34% or 23.0 points to trade at 666.5 at the close. Lundbeck A/S (CSE:LUN) declined 3.19% or 8.1 points to end at 246.1 and Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CSE:CHRH) was down 3.18% or 16.8 points to 512.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 106 to 34 and 11 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 1.69% or 0.87 to $50.56 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 1.69% or 0.94 to hit $54.83 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 1.75% or 29.35 to trade at $1647.25 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.19% to 6.8694, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4706.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 98.933.