Investing.com – Belgium equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Financials, Utilities and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Brussels, the BEL 20 rose 1.99%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the BEL 20 were ING Groep NV (AS:ING), which rose 5.21% or 0.540 points to trade at 10.905 at the close. KBC (BR:KBC) added 3.74% or 1.745 points to end at 48.445 and NV Bekaert SA (BR:BEKB) was up 3.01% or 1.08 points to 37.09 in late trade.
Biggest losers included UCB (BR:UCB), which lost 0.91% or 0.64 points to trade at 69.66 in late trade. Proximus NV (BR:PROX) declined 0.41% or 0.12 points to end at 30.29 and bpost NV (BR:BPOST) shed 0.25% or 0.06 points to 24.36.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 88 to 53 and 14 ended unchanged on the Brussels Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 1.09% or 13.70 to $1247.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.78% or 0.33 to hit $41.84 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.76% or 0.34 to trade at $44.35 a barrel.
EUR/USD was down 0.90% to 1.1280, while EUR/GBP fell 0.59% to 0.7935.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.78% at 94.75.