Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Goods and Technology sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 0.29%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH), which rose 2.75% or 11.1 points to trade at 415.0 at the close. FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) added 2.07% or 4.6 points to end at 226.9 and TDC A/S (CO:TDC) was up 1.04% or 0.35 points to 33.88 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Carlsberg A/S B (CO:CARLb), which lost 2.02% or 11.5 points to trade at 558.0 in late trade. Vestas Wind Systems (CO:VWS) declined 1.39% or 6.3 points to end at 448.0 and DSV (CO:DSV) shed 1.24% or 3.3 points to 263.7.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 82 to 73 and 3 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.39% or 0.12 to $30.56 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 1.52% or 0.47 to hit $30.48 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.51% or 5.50 to trade at $1090.70 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.14% to 6.8791, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4626.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.10% at 99.12.