Investing.com – Belgium equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Financials, Food Producers and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 added 1.46%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BEL 20 were Proximus NV (BR:PROX), which rose 3.37% or 0.76 points to trade at 23.31 at the close. Umicore SA (BR:UMI) added 3.05% or 1.05 points to end at 35.46 and Galapagos NV (AS:GLPG) was up 2.64% or 2.340 points to 90.880 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ontex Group (BR:ONTEX), which lost 3.15% or 0.56 points to trade at 17.24 in late trade. bpost NV (BR:BPOST) declined 1.54% or 0.12 points to end at 7.67 and Ageas (BR:AGES) shed 0.65% or 0.260 points to 39.690.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 72 to 37 and 19 ended unchanged on the Brussels Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.02% or 0.30 to $1249.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 1.02% or 0.52 to hit $51.52 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.33% or 0.20 to trade at $60.17 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.35% to 1.1315, while EUR/GBP fell 0.09% to 0.9033.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 97.433.