Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Construction & Materials, Automobiles & Parts and Industrial Metals & Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the FTSE 100 fell 1.20%.
The best performers of the session on the FTSE 100 were Weir Group (LONDON:WEIR), which rose 5.64% or 98.00 points to trade at 1836.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Next Plc (LONDON:NXT) added 1.68% or 120.00 points to end at 7285.00 and Royal Mail (LONDON:RMG) was up 1.51% or 6.60 points to 444.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hikma Pharmaceuticals (LONDON:HIK), which fell 3.73% or 79.00 points to trade at 2042.00 at the close. CRH (LONDON:CRH) declined 3.65% or 69.00 points to end at 1823.00 and Dixons Carphone (LONDON:DC) was down 3.03% or 13.10 points to 418.90.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1910 to 680 and 482 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.30% or 3.70 to $1210.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 3.00% or 1.71 to hit $58.77 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 2.41% or 1.55 to trade at $66.19 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.98% to 1.5490, while EUR/GBP rose 0.81% to 0.7216.
The US Dollar Index was down 1.42% at 94.83.