Investing.com – Belgium stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Consumer Goods, Financials and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 gained 0.55%.
The best performers of the session on the BEL 20 were ING Groep NV (AS:INGA), which rose 1.43% or 0.195 points to trade at 13.810 at the close. Meanwhile, Ontex Group (BR:ONTEX) added 1.21% or 0.34 points to end at 28.54 and Ageas (BR:AGES) was up 1.05% or 0.415 points to 39.825 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Umicore NV (BR:UMI), which fell 1.39% or 0.75 points to trade at 53.13 at the close. Telenet Group (BR:TNET) declined 0.48% or 0.24 points to end at 49.82 and Solvay SA (BR:SOLB) was down 0.36% or 0.40 points to 109.25.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Brussels Stock Exchange by 66 to 46 and 9 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.14% or 1.65 to $1221.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.47% or 0.25 to hit $53.79 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.51% or 0.29 to trade at $56.85 a barrel.
EUR/USD was up 0.26% to 1.0787, while EUR/GBP rose 0.36% to 0.8618.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.22% at 99.61.