Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Personal & Household Goods and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 fell 0.23%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Chr. Hansen Holding A/S (COP:CHRH), which rose 2.78% or 9.7 points to trade at 358.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Novozymes B (COP:NZYMb) added 0.65% or 2.1 points to end at 325.8 and TDC A/S (COP:TDC) was up 0.61% or 0.30 points to 49.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Genmab (COP:GEN), which fell 2.27% or 13.5 points to trade at 581.5 at the close. Nordea Bank AB (COP:NDA) declined 1.69% or 1.45 points to end at 84.25 and William Demant Holding (COP:WDH) was down 1.17% or 6.0 points to 507.5.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 80 to 71 and 4 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.88% or 0.50 to $57.46 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August rose 0.75% or 0.47 to hit $62.48 a barrel, while the August Gold contract fell 0.46% or 5.40 to trade at $1163.90 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.39% to 6.7239, while EUR/DKK fell 0.04% to 7.4577.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.25% at 96.23.