Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Personal & Household Goods, Oil & Gas and Consumer Goods sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 0.08%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Lundbeck A/S (CO:LUN), which rose 2.99% or 11.2 points to trade at 386.0 at the close. Genmab (CO:GEN) added 2.43% or 35.0 points to end at 1476.0 and Novo Nordisk A/S B (CO:NOVOb) was up 0.62% or 1.8 points to 292.2 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Nordea Bank AB (CO:NDA), which lost 1.61% or 1.35 points to trade at 82.25 in late trade. Dong Energy A/S (CO:DENERG) declined 1.37% or 4.20 points to end at 303.10 and Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA) shed 1.25% or 8.0 points to 630.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 68 to 50 and 17 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.58% or 0.67 to $43.20 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 1.78% or 0.80 to hit $45.62 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.52% or 6.54 to trade at $1252.34 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was up 0.12% to 6.6682, while EUR/DKK fell 0.04% to 7.4362.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 97.26.