Investing.com – Belgium equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Technology, Consumer Goods and Healthcare sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 fell 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BEL 20 were Umicore SA (BR:UMI), which rose 1.77% or 0.76 points to trade at 43.65 at the close. Telenet Group (BR:TNET) added 0.86% or 0.45 points to end at 52.70 and Ackermans V.Haaren (BR:ACKB) was up 0.76% or 1.10 points to 145.40 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UCB (BR:UCB), which lost 2.21% or 1.48 points to trade at 65.62 in late trade. Anheuser Busch Inbev SA NV (BR:ABI) declined 1.27% or 1.10 points to end at 85.20 and Aperam SA (AS:APAM) shed 1.00% or 0.43 points to 42.63.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 60 to 49 and 17 ended unchanged on the Brussels Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.52% or 7.00 to $1346.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.64% or 0.44 to hit $68.91 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.09% or 0.80 to trade at $74.28 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.27% to 1.2340, while EUR/GBP fell 0.24% to 0.8692.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 89.56.