Investing.com – Denmark equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Chemicals, Consumer Services and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Copenhagen, the OMX Copenhagen 20 lost 1.03% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the OMX Copenhagen 20 were Coloplast A/S (CO:COLOb), which rose 0.02% or 0.1 points to trade at 472.7 at the close. Novozymes A/S B (CO:NZYMb) fell 0.13% or 0.4 points to end at 302.6 and William Demant Holding AS (CO:WDH) was down 0.30% or 0.4 points to 134.3 in late trade.
Biggest losers included TDC A/S (CO:TDC), which lost 3.40% or 1.10 points to trade at 31.30 in late trade. Genmab (CO:GEN) declined 2.58% or 30.0 points to end at 1131.0 and FLSmidth & Co. (CO:FLS) shed 2.55% or 6.1 points to 233.5.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 139 to 20 and 7 ended unchanged on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 0.61% or 0.30 to $48.77 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in August fell 0.55% or 0.28 to hit $50.26 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.90% or 11.45 to trade at $1287.35 a troy ounce.
USD/DKK was down 0.26% to 6.5914, while EUR/DKK rose 0.03% to 7.4350.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.19% at 94.45.