Investing.com – Belgium stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms, Industrials and Technology sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 rose 1.03%.
The best performers of the session on the BEL 20 were ING Groep NV (AS:INGA), which rose 2.58% or 0.290 points to trade at 11.516 at the close. Meanwhile, Proximus NV (BR:PROX) added 2.54% or 0.52 points to end at 21.02 and Umicore SA (BR:UMI) was up 2.10% or 1.03 points to 50.16 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Argen-X (BR:ARGX), which fell 4.60% or 3.30 points to trade at 68.50 at the close. Telenet Group (BR:TNET) declined 3.83% or 1.84 points to end at 46.16 and Etablissementen Fr Colruyt NV (BR:COLR) was down 1.93% or 0.98 points to 49.88.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Brussels Stock Exchange by 53 to 48 and 24 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.07% or 0.80 to $1209.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.41% or 0.29 to hit $70.48 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.84% or 0.67 to trade at $78.73 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.62% to 1.1745, while EUR/GBP fell 0.08% to 0.8874.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.46% at 93.69.