Investing.com – Belgium stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Technology, Consumer Goods and Healthcare sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 fell 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the BEL 20 were Umicore SA (BR:UMI), which rose 1.77% or 0.76 points to trade at 43.65 at the close. Meanwhile, Telenet Group (BR:TNET) added 0.86% or 0.45 points to end at 52.70 and Ackermans V.Haaren (BR:ACKB) was up 0.76% or 1.10 points to 145.40 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were UCB (BR:UCB), which fell 2.21% or 1.48 points to trade at 65.62 at the close. Anheuser Busch Inbev SA NV (BR:ABI) declined 1.27% or 1.10 points to end at 85.20 and Aperam SA (AS:APAM) was down 1.00% or 0.43 points to 42.63.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Brussels Stock Exchange by 60 to 49 and 17 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.44% or 6.00 to $1347.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.64% or 0.44 to hit $68.91 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.09% or 0.80 to trade at $74.28 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.26% to 1.2341, while EUR/GBP fell 0.24% to 0.8692.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 89.56.