Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Industrials and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 0.36%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Pandora A/S (CO:PNDORA), which rose 1.18% or 10.0 points to trade at 859.5 at the close. Meanwhile, Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb) added 0.73% or 3.6 points to end at 496.0 and Tryg A/S (CO:TRYG) was up 0.55% or 0.7 points to 127.5 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Nordea Bank AB (CO:NDA), which fell 2.49% or 1.60 points to trade at 62.65 at the close. A.P. Moller - Maersk A (CO:MAERSKa) declined 2.31% or 200 points to end at 8450 and A.P. Moller - Maersk B (CO:MAERSKb) was down 1.93% or 170 points to 8655.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 96 to 50 and 15 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for May delivery was down 2.34% or 0.92 to $38.47 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 1.93% or 0.79 to hit $40.08 a barrel, while the June Gold contract rose 1.60% or 19.60 to trade at $1241.60 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.57% to 6.6212, while EUR/DKK fell 0.03% to 7.4537.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.57% at 95.44.