Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Forestry & Paper and Automobiles & Parts sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN), which rose 3.02% or 22.00 points to trade at 749.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Tesco PLC (LON:TSCO) added 3.00% or 5.85 points to end at 201.00 and J Sainsbury PLC (LON:SBRY) was up 2.75% or 6.40 points to 239.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Provident Financial (LON:PFG), which fell 10.17% or 89.50 points to trade at 790.50 at the close. Dixons Carphone PLC (LON:DC) declined 2.48% or 4.10 points to end at 161.40 and Anglo American PLC (LON:AAL) was down 2.46% or 34.00 points to 1351.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1162 to 900 and 155 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.87% or 11.10 to $1266.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.21% or 0.12 to hit $57.59 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.58% or 0.36 to trade at $62.81 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.27% to 1.3445, while EUR/GBP fell 0.11% to 0.8792.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 93.32.