Investing.com – Belgium stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Industrials, Telecoms and Utilities sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 fell 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the BEL 20 were Ackermans V.Haaren (BR:ACKB), which rose 0.80% or 0.90 points to trade at 114.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Telenet Group (BR:TNET) added 0.62% or 0.26 points to end at 42.06 and Ontex Group (BR:ONTEX) was up 0.47% or 0.15 points to 32.19 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NV Bekaert SA (BR:BEKB), which fell 2.39% or 0.91 points to trade at 36.88 at the close. Solvay SA (BR:SOLB) declined 0.73% or 0.72 points to end at 97.42 and bpost NV (BR:BPOST) was down 0.66% or 0.15 points to 23.30.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Brussels Stock Exchange by 75 to 61 and 14 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.06% or 0.75 to $1326.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.83% or 0.87 to hit $46.77 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 1.71% or 0.86 to trade at $49.29 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.18% to 1.1175, while EUR/GBP rose 0.25% to 0.8544.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.20% at 95.67.