Investing.com – Belgium equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Telecoms, Consumer Goods and Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 gained 0.89%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BEL 20 were Telenet Group (BR:TNET), which rose 4.52% or 1.74 points to trade at 40.24 at the close. Proximus NV (BR:PROX) added 1.75% or 0.36 points to end at 20.93 and Anheuser Busch Inbev SA NV (BR:ABI) was up 1.57% or 1.32 points to 85.21 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Argen-X (BR:ARGX), which lost 1.42% or 1.10 points to trade at 76.50 in late trade. Etablissementen Fr Colruyt NV (BR:COLR) declined 0.21% or 0.10 points to end at 48.13 and Umicore SA (BR:UMI) shed 0.10% or 0.05 points to 49.34.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 81 to 35 and 13 ended unchanged on the Brussels Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.01% or 0.10 to $1270.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 4.56% or 2.99 to hit $68.53 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 2.44% or 1.78 to trade at $74.83 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.29% to 1.1637, while EUR/GBP rose 0.14% to 0.8775.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 94.35.