Belgium Stock Market Update

Investing.com – Belgium stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Healthcare, Telecoms, and Beverage sectors led shares down.

At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 lost 0.17%.

Best Performers

• Syensqo SA (EBR:SYENS): +1.89% or +1.38 points, trading at 74.45
• Melexis NV (EBR:MLXS): +1.25% or +0.70 points, ending at 56.70
• Solvay SA (EBR:SOLB): +0.79% or +0.25 points, closing at 31.85

Worst Performers

• Warehouses de Pauw Comm VA (EBR:WDPP): -2.71% or -0.56 points, trading at 20.14
• Aedifica (EBR:AOO): -2.24% or -1.30 points, ending at 56.65
• Sofina (EBR:SOF): -2.01% or -4.40 points, closing at 214.00

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Brussels Stock Exchange by 57 to 37, with 13 ending unchanged.

Commodity Prices

• Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.68% or 18.19 to $2,658.01 a troy ounce.
• Crude Oil for January delivery fell 0.13% or 0.09 to $68.45 a barrel.
• The February Brent oil contract dropped 0.11% or 0.08 to trade at $72.23 a barrel.

Currency Exchange Rates

• EUR/USD was up 0.61% to 1.06.

• EUR/GBP remained unchanged at 0.83.

• The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.45% at 105.81.