Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Technology Hardware & Equipment, Real Estate Investment Trusts REITs and Real Estate sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 added 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (LON:RBS), which rose 3.50% or 6.300 points to trade at 186.300 at the close. Meanwhile, Barclays PLC (LON:BARC) added 3.21% or 5.70 points to end at 183.10 and Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN) was up 2.03% or 13.900 points to 699.200 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were ITV PLC (LON:ITV), which fell 3.67% or 6.60 points to trade at 173.20 at the close. SKY PLC (LON:SKYB) declined 3.62% or 31.00 points to end at 825.00 and WPP PLC (LON:WPP) was down 3.57% or 65.00 points to 1755.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1170 to 1096 and 470 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.16% or 2.05 to $1267.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 1.87% or 0.97 to hit $50.85 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 2.13% or 1.12 to trade at $51.55 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.20% to 1.2266, while EUR/GBP fell 0.19% to 0.8911.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.38% at 98.24.