Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Fixed Line Telecommunications, Tobacco and Mobile Telecommunications sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 gained 0.44%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS), which rose 5.15% or 298.00 points to trade at 6082.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Paddy Power Betfair PLC (LON:PPB) added 4.57% or 275.00 points to end at 6290.00 and Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) was up 4.08% or 35.80 points to 912.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Babcock International Group PLC (LON:BAB), which fell 4.13% or 27.00 points to trade at 627.00 at the close. BAE Systems PLC (LON:BAES) declined 3.83% or 22.40 points to end at 561.80 and Marks and Spencer Group PLC (LON:MKS) was down 1.91% or 5.70 points to 292.80.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1239 to 859 and 279 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.74% or 9.10 to $1231.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.04% or 0.03 to hit $71.31 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.20% or 0.16 to trade at $80.27 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.06% to 1.3163, while EUR/GBP rose 0.16% to 0.8806.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 94.67.