Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Electrical, Chemicals and Financial Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.63%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were RS Group PLC (LON:RS1R), which rose 3.69% or 26.00 points to trade at 731.00 at the close. Meanwhile, SSE PLC (LON:SSE) added 3.51% or 61.00 points to end at 1,800.00 and Bunzl PLC (LON:BNZL) was up 3.45% or 100.00 points to 2,998.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were JD Sports Fashion PLC (LON:JD), which fell 2.20% or 2.65 points to trade at 117.85 at the close. Ashtead Group PLC (LON:AHT) declined 2.00% or 110.00 points to end at 5,400.00 and Persimmon PLC (LON:PSN) was down 1.23% or 17.50 points to 1,404.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1165 to 619 and 713 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.65% or 15.10 to $2,344.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.80% or 0.64 to hit $80.36 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.84% or 0.71 to trade at $84.96 a barrel.
GBP/USD was unchanged 0.02% to 1.27, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.10% to 0.85.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 104.86.