Investing.com – Belgium stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Technology, Basic Materials and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 fell 0.04%.
The best performers of the session on the BEL 20 were Ackermans V.Haaren (BR:ACKB), which rose 2.49% or 3.60 points to trade at 148.40 at the close. Meanwhile, UCB (BR:UCB) added 2.22% or 1.38 points to end at 63.44 and NV Bekaert SA (BR:BEKB) was up 2.07% or 0.72 points to 35.74 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Umicore SA (BR:UMI), which fell 2.28% or 0.90 points to trade at 38.38 at the close. Galapagos NV (AS:GLPG) declined 2.16% or 1.710 points to end at 77.570 and Ontex Group (BR:ONTEX) was down 1.17% or 0.33 points to 27.48.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Brussels Stock Exchange by 60 to 54 and 6 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.75% or 9.57 to $1291.27 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 1.46% or 0.83 to hit $57.66 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.62% or 0.39 to trade at $62.96 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.49% to 1.1795, while EUR/GBP rose 0.09% to 0.8872.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.53% at 93.39.