Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Healthcare, Consumer Goods and Personal & Household Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 0.96%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (CO:CHRH), which rose 2.15% or 7.5 points to trade at 356.0 at the close. Novozymes B (CO:NZYMb) added 1.04% or 2.9 points to end at 280.6 and DSV (CO:DSV) was up 0.58% or 1.6 points to 276.1 in late trade.
Biggest losers included TDC A/S (CO:TDC), which lost 3.23% or 1.15 points to trade at 34.43 in late trade. FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) declined 3.05% or 8.1 points to end at 257.9 and Tryg A/S (CO:TRYG) shed 2.58% or 3.2 points to 120.8.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 97 to 56 and 9 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for November delivery was up 1.40% or 0.66 to $47.76 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in December rose 0.76% or 0.38 to hit $50.63 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.19% or 2.20 to trade at $1166.70 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.25% to 6.5524, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4612.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.14% at 94.76.