Investing.com – Denmark stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrials, Personal & Household Goods and Consumer Goods sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 0.90%.
The best performers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb), which rose 2.60% or 14.0 points to trade at 552.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) added 0.62% or 1.8 points to end at 292.4 and Genmab (CO:GEN) was up 0.42% or 6.0 points to 1438.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS), which fell 3.47% or 14.0 points to trade at 389.2 at the close. AP Moeller - Maersk A/S B (CO:MAERSKb) declined 2.79% or 390 points to end at 13610 and AP Moeller - Maersk A/S A (CO:MAERSKa) was down 2.41% or 320 points to 12980.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange by 81 to 37 and 19 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was down 2.45% or 1.15 to $45.77 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 2.33% or 1.15 to hit $48.15 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.55% or 6.80 to trade at $1252.30 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.23% to 6.3781, while EUR/DKK rose 0.00% to 7.4362.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.84.