Investing.com – Belgium stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Utilities and Technology sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 declined 0.19%.
The best performers of the session on the BEL 20 were Umicore NV (BR:UMI), which rose 1.47% or 0.80 points to trade at 55.26 at the close. Meanwhile, Ontex Group (BR:ONTEX) added 1.10% or 0.31 points to end at 28.46 and KBC (BR:KBC) was up 1.02% or 0.610 points to 60.500 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Proximus NV (BR:PROX), which fell 2.57% or 0.71 points to trade at 27.09 at the close. Elia (BR:ELI) declined 1.57% or 0.765 points to end at 47.915 and bpost NV (BR:BPOST) was down 1.09% or 0.25 points to 22.75.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Brussels Stock Exchange by 68 to 45 and 13 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.10% or 1.15 to $1183.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.89% or 0.46 to hit $51.50 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.07% or 0.59 to trade at $54.35 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.14% to 1.0560, while EUR/GBP fell 0.14% to 0.8684.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.09% at 102.01.