New fan for KBC, Asit Biotech and MDxHealth Climb (+ Briefing)

Equity markets in Europe are changing in the red on Tuesday afternoon, Donald Trump statements on trade has thrown a cold.

The main European stock markets are moving down Tuesday noon, the issue of international trade having gained the upper hand in the markets after the statements of Donald Trump who will meet at the end of the week the Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The US president said Monday he still plans to raise tariffs on 200 billion dollars products imported from China to the United States, to 25% against 10% today.

The euro

is down against the dollar.

In Brussels, the Bel 20

hovering around 12:10 as the index of securities listed continuously.

KBC led the way with a gain of 1.9%. A broker is pbaded on the purchase on the value. It is followed by bpost (+ 1.4%) and Proximus (+ 1.3%).

UCB and Galapagos compete for the red lantern (-1.4%).

Aperam gives up 0.6%. JP Morgan has reduced its price target on the stainless steel producer. AB InBev (-0.5%) interim ex-dividend rating this Tuesday.

Off Bel 20, Euronav climbed 3.9%. An badyst has almost doubled his course goal on the title. MDxHealth and Asit Biotech continue their momentum of the day before with respective increases of 8.5% and 12.4%.

At the bottom of the table, we find Roularta (-3.9%) Kinepolis (-2.9%) and Bekaert (-1.8%).

>KBC

Morgan Stanley has raised its recommendation to "overweight" against "neutral" before. The price target goes from 79 euros to 79.60 euros.

>Aperam

: JP Morgan has reduced its price target to 40 euros against 43 euros before. The recommendation remains to "overweight".

>AB InBev

ex-interim dividend of 0.80 euro gross.

> The participation of Van Herk Investments in Galapagos

fell below 10% and was 9.91% as of November 20th.

>Ageas

acquired, last week, 157,500 own shares at a unit price of 43.15 euros.

> Engadine Partners reduced its short position on Ontex

from 0.60% to 0.56% as of November 22nd.

> Kite Lake Capital Management declared that it has a selling interest in the market on November 23 Nyrstar

, representing 0.53% of the capital.

>Euronav

: Kepler Cheuvreux has raised his recommendation to "buy" against "keep" before. The price target goes from 7.5 euros to 14.5 euros.

>Ahold Delhaize

acquired 1,575,000 own shares at an average unit price of € 22.57.

> Marshall Wace reduced his short position on Econocom

from 0.87% of the capital to 0.79% on November 22nd.

> As of November 19th, Patronal Life has climbed the 60% threshold in the capital of Banimmo

. Its participation reaches 60.13%.

> Quartys Limited increased its short position on Intervest Offices & Warehouses

from 0.60% of the capital to 0.77% on November 23rd.

>To keep an eye on this Tuesday. USA. September house prices at 3pm, November consumer confidence at 4pm.