Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Chemicals, Healthcare and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 1.28%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CO:VWS), which rose 3.09% or 12.2 points to trade at 407.2 at the close. Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) added 1.80% or 6.6 points to end at 372.7 and Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN) was up 1.15% or 4.3 points to 376.8 in late trade.
Biggest losers included GN Store Nord (CO:GN), which lost 3.86% or 12.5 points to trade at 311.0 in late trade. FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) declined 3.83% or 15.0 points to end at 376.3 and Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) shed 2.49% or 8.5 points to 333.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 83 to 42 and 16 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was down 3.42% or 2.29 to $64.75 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 2.44% or 1.77 to hit $70.69 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 1.37% or 16.40 to trade at $1184.30 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.04% to 6.5732, while EUR/DKK rose 0.01% to 7.4553.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.07% at 96.62.