Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Food Producers and General Retailers sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.27%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Old Mutual Ltd (LON:OMU), which rose 3.72% or 4.20 points to trade at 117.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) added 2.59% or 22.00 points to end at 872.00 and Associated British Foods PLC (LON:ABF) was up 2.42% or 56.00 points to 2370.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Carnival PLC (LON:CCL), which fell 8.46% or 351.00 points to trade at 3800.00 at the close. Ferguson Plc (LON:FERG) declined 7.16% or 370.00 points to end at 4800.00 and EasyJet PLC (LON:EZJ) was down 2.77% or 32.00 points to 1123.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1121 to 955 and 334 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.60% or 7.95 to $1321.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.87% or 1.10 to hit $59.92 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.88% or 0.59 to trade at $67.40 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.08% to 1.3213, while EUR/GBP fell 0.28% to 0.8540.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 96.203.