Relaxation in commercial fighting pushes Bel20 more than 1 percent higher
A few soothing groceries from the US about the evolutions in the file of the customs rates, the investors gave extra courage on Wednesday. The Bel20 index rose 1.13 percent at the Brussels stock exchange to 4,286.28 points.
With the shares that count for the calculation of the indicator, UCB and Melexis both won more than 4 percent. The pharmaceutical company raised 4.67 percent to 146.75 euros, the chip designer 4.43 percent to 50.65 euros.
Hybrid software rushed 10.04 percent higher to 3.72 euros on the broad market.
CMB.Tech thickness 4.15 percent up to 8.28 euros. The maritime group wants to merge with the Norwegian Golden Ocean. Together they can create one of the largest diversified listed maritime groups in the world with a combined fleet of more than 250 ships. The shareholders of Golden Ocean receive 0.95 shares of CMB.Tech for their own share. The shareholders of CMB.Tech get 70 percent of the shares in the new combination, those of Golden Ocean 30 percent.
In the index shares, loss was mainly for Elijah, which submitted 2.83 percent at a closing price of 87.45 euros.
With the smaller values, Fluxys Belgium fell 4.41 percent back to 21.70 euros.
GIMV left 0.51 percent at a final listing of 38.30 euros. The holding wants to adjust its financial year. Now it runs from April 1 to March 31. The holding company wants to coincide this with the civil year. If the general meeting of shareholders sets the light on green at the end of May, 2025 will become a financial year of 9 months as a transition.