As European markets continued their decline on Thursday, like Wall Street at its opening, the BEL 20 index ended the day 1.34% lower.
The BEL 20 dropped to 3,669.66 points, with all its elements in the red except for arGEN-X (363.50), which increased by 1.51%, and Umicore (32.38) which recovered 0.09%.
VGP (149.00) plunged 5.70% ahead of Sofina (200.20) and Ageas (39.51) which fell by 3.84% and 3.49% respectively, followed by Solvay (74.84) and UCB (81.74), down 3.06% and 3.45% while Galapagos (52.70) lost 2.48%.
AB InBev (53.92) was worth 1.26% less than the previous day. Aperam (25.80) and D’Ieteren (142.20) decreased by 1.39%, while Cofinimmo (102. 00) and WDP (29.22) fell by 2.11 and 2.01%.
Proximus (13.79) saw its value slide by 2.72%, Colruyt (27.11) by 0.77% and Elia (146.00) by 0.41%.
Outside the BEL 20, Unifiedpost (3.67) rebounded by 51.5% following the intervention of Marc Coucke into its capital: the title had lost half its value over the last month and regained up to 73.7% in session at 4.20 euros.
Orange Belgium (18.76) stood out with a jump of 4.1% but ING (8.63) and Exmar (4.68) plunged by 4.2 and 4.4% respectively. Befimmo (47.35) lost 4% while losses of more than 3% were registered by Roularta (18.20) and Recticel (14.02). Econocom (3.09) and EVS (21.55) yielded more than 2%.
Bone Therapeutics (0.24) finally lost 5% while IBA (16.24) and Nyxoah (8.72) rose by 4 and 2.5%. Biocartis (1.74) and Celyad (1.62) went up by 2.2 and 2.5%.
Around 4:30 p.m., the euro stood at 0.9987 USD, down from 1.0021 in the morning and 1.0060 the day before. The ounce of gold lost 26.05 dollars, sinking to 1,705.65 dollars, while bullion traded at around 54,910 euros, down 430 euros.
