Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Personal & Household Goods and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 1.99%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CSE:MAERSKb), which rose 2.14% or 305 points to trade at 14555 at the close. Meanwhile, Carlsberg A/S B (CSE:CARLb) fell 0.10% or 1.0 points to end at 982.0 and Chr Hansen Holding A/S (CSE:CHRH) was down 0.68% or 3.8 points to 558.2 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CSE:VWS), which fell 5.81% or 68.0 points to trade at 1103.0 at the close. Ambu A/S (CSE:AMBUb) declined 3.98% or 11.2 points to end at 270.0 and Rockwool International B (CSE:ROCKb) was down 3.78% or 94 points to 2392.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 104 to 39 and 15 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.19% or 0.12 to $64.68 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in May fell 0.42% or 0.29 to hit $68.10 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract rose 0.99% or 17.15 to trade at $1748.05 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.63% to 6.2068, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4356.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.55% at 91.377.