Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Chemicals and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 1.66% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN), which rose 1.28% or 4.3 points to trade at 341.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Oersted A/S (CO:ORSTED) fell 0.28% or 1.10 points to end at 391.90 and TDC A/S (CO:TDC) was down 0.28% or 0.14 points to 49.36 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were GN Store Nord (CO:GN), which fell 4.94% or 10.5 points to trade at 202.1 at the close. Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS) declined 4.86% or 21.6 points to end at 422.4 and Genmab (CO:GEN) was down 2.95% or 37.0 points to 1219.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 100 to 30 and 13 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.43% or 0.27 to $63.24 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.51% or 0.35 to hit $67.77 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.17% or 2.30 to trade at $1339.60 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.22% to 6.0589, while EUR/DKK fell 0.01% to 7.4501.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 89.71.