Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Automobiles & Parts, Industrial Transportation and General Retailers sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 declined 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Carnival PLC (LON:CCL), which rose 2.68% or 127.00 points to trade at 4865.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Provident Financial (LON:PFG) added 1.65% or 12.50 points to end at 771.50 and EasyJet PLC (LON:EZJ) was up 1.61% or 19.00 points to 1199.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Shire PLC (LON:SHP), which fell 2.36% or 90.50 points to trade at 3741.50 at the close. WPP PLC (LON:WPP) declined 1.69% or 24.00 points to end at 1399.00 and Tui AG (LON:TUIT) was down 1.53% or 20.00 points to 1284.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1100 to 792 and 473 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.61% or 8.04 to $1303.46 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.63% or 0.33 to hit $51.89 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.08% or 0.63 to trade at $57.80 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.33% to 1.3422, while EUR/GBP fell 0.33% to 0.8769.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.59% at 92.99.