Investing.com – Belgium stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Food Producers and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 gained 1.46%.
The best performers of the session on the BEL 20 were Proximus NV (BR:PROX), which rose 3.37% or 0.76 points to trade at 23.31 at the close. Meanwhile, Umicore SA (BR:UMI) added 3.05% or 1.05 points to end at 35.46 and Galapagos NV (AS:GLPG) was up 2.64% or 2.340 points to 90.880 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Ontex Group (BR:ONTEX), which fell 3.15% or 0.56 points to trade at 17.24 at the close. bpost NV (BR:BPOST) declined 1.54% or 0.12 points to end at 7.67 and Ageas (BR:AGES) was down 0.65% or 0.260 points to 39.690.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Brussels Stock Exchange by 72 to 37 and 19 ended unchanged.
Shares in Ageas (BR:AGES) fell to 52-week lows; falling 0.65% or 0.260 to 39.690.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.02% or 0.20 to $1249.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.96% or 0.49 to hit $51.49 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.28% or 0.17 to trade at $60.14 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.37% to 1.1313, while EUR/GBP fell 0.10% to 0.9032.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 97.442.