Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Technology and Software & Computer Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 fell 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN), which rose 1.70% or 4.5 points to trade at 268.6 at the close. Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) added 0.72% or 1.7 points to end at 237.6 and Danske Bank A/S (CO:DANSKE) was up 0.49% or 1.0 points to 205.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which lost 2.84% or 12.8 points to trade at 437.5 in late trade. Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) declined 2.00% or 4.7 points to end at 230.6 and FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) shed 1.42% or 4.1 points to 284.8.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 97 to 49 and 17 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 0.59% or 0.30 to $51.36 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.28% or 0.15 to hit $54.09 a barrel, while the February Gold contract rose 0.79% or 9.25 to trade at $1178.65 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.12% to 6.9702, while EUR/DKK rose 0.02% to 7.4391.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.23% at 100.79.