Unilever offers support to AEX
The AEX closed 0.3 percent lower at 955.9 points. Investment company CVC fell 6.6 percent. The financial institutions Aegon, ABN Amro and ING lost 4.4, 2.8 and 2.7 percent respectively. Defensive funds were in demand. Unilever, Heineken and Ahold Delhaize won 1.7, 1.4 and 1.2 percent. ended at the medium-sized funds Basic Fit with a plus of 5.7 percent, in response to its better-than-expected quarterly report. Small cap Sligro fell 4.6 percent. Investment bank Oddo BHF took advantage of the disappointing quarterly report published yesterday to remove the wholesale chain from the purchase list.