Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas Producers and Beverage sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.18%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Johnson Matthey PLC (LON:JMAT), which rose 2.84% or 91.00 points to trade at 3300.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Associated British Foods PLC (LON:ABF) added 2.23% or 63.00 points to end at 2891.00 and J Sainsbury PLC (LON:SBRY) was up 2.11% or 5.30 points to 256.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Provident Financial (LON:PFG), which fell 12.61% or 116.00 points to trade at 804.00 at the close. Capita PLC (LON:CPI) declined 6.18% or 26.00 points to end at 395.00 and Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) was down 3.47% or 49.50 points to 1378.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1093 to 937 and 148 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.01% or 0.20 to $1334.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.82% or 0.53 to hit $63.77 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.44% or 1.01 to trade at $69.25 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.15% to 1.3771, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.8890.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 90.36.