Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Copenhagen Health Care, Copenhagen Chemicals and OMX Copenhagen Personal & Household Goods PI sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 declined 2.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Carlsberg A/S B (CSE:CARLb), which rose 1.79% or 12.00 points to trade at 683.20 at the close. Oersted AS (CSE:ORSTED) added 0.89% or 2.60 points to end at 294.90 and Genmab (CSE:GMAB) was up 0.77% or 12.00 points to 1,575.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Novo Nordisk A/S Class B (CSE:NOVOb), which fell 3.39% or 20.80 points to trade at 592.30 in late trade. Pandora A/S (CSE:PNDORA) declined 2.24% or 28.50 points to end at 1,241.00 and Novozymes A/S B (CSE:NSISb) down 1.90% or 7.60 points to 393.30.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones by 69 to 66 and 17 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.14% or 0.88 to $76.42 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 1.17% or 0.95 to hit $80.06 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.21% or 5.71 to trade at $2,684.31 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.38% to 7.25, while EUR/DKK unchanged 0.04% to 7.46.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.55% at 109.21.