Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Household Goods & Home Construction, Automobiles & Parts and Aerospace & Defense sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Tesco PLC (LON:TSCO), which rose 3.59% or 8.40 points to trade at 242.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Old Mutual Ltd (LON:OMU) added 2.02% or 2.48 points to end at 125.48 and Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) was up 1.92% or 37.00 points to 1967.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (LON:RB), which fell 6.49% or 416.00 points to trade at 5992.00 at the close. Whitbread PLC (LON:WTB) declined 2.12% or 106.00 points to end at 4894.00 and Standard Life Aberdeen PLC (LON:SLA) was down 1.68% or 4.70 points to 275.90.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1090 to 970 and 344 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.45% or 5.85 to $1314.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.95% or 0.61 to hit $64.59 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.52% or 1.07 to trade at $71.68 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.44% to 1.3117, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8597.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.15% at 96.468.