Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Aerospace & Defense, Forestry & Paper and Construction & Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 added 0.63%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES), which rose 4.63% or 61.50 points to trade at 1391.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Johnson Matthey PLC (LON:JMAT) added 3.29% or 102.00 points to end at 3206.00 and BAE Systems PLC (LON:BAES) was up 3.28% or 18.80 points to 591.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Standard Life Aberdeen PLC (LON:SLA), which fell 7.53% or 29.30 points to trade at 360.00 at the close. Capita PLC (LON:CPI) declined 4.49% or 8.50 points to end at 181.00 and Provident Financial (LON:PFG) was down 3.02% or 21.60 points to 692.60.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1203 to 724 and 135 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.32% or 4.40 to $1353.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.40% or 0.24 to hit $60.84 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.51% or 0.33 to trade at $64.03 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.38% to 1.4050, while EUR/GBP fell 0.18% to 0.8880.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 88.72.