Investing.com – Belgium stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Healthcare, Basic Materials and Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 fell 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the BEL 20 were Ontex Group (BR:ONTEX), which rose 3.63% or 0.86 points to trade at 24.54 at the close. Meanwhile, Proximus NV (BR:PROX) added 1.71% or 0.45 points to end at 26.82 and Telenet Group (BR:TNET) was up 1.43% or 0.80 points to 56.65 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Galapagos NV (AS:GLPG), which fell 3.69% or 3.480 points to trade at 90.740 at the close. UCB (BR:UCB) declined 3.42% or 2.34 points to end at 66.14 and Umicore SA (BR:UMI) was down 1.49% or 0.70 points to 46.18.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Brussels Stock Exchange by 59 to 49 and 17 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.14% or 1.80 to $1330.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.31% or 0.82 to hit $63.59 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 1.17% or 0.78 to trade at $67.17 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.23% to 1.2302, while EUR/GBP fell 0.43% to 0.8800.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 89.76.