Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Electrical, Tobacco and Fixed Line Telecommunications sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.26%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Provident Financial (LON:PFG), which rose 3.56% or 30.00 points to trade at 873.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Mondi PLC (LON:MNDI) added 2.57% or 47.00 points to end at 1874.00 and Rio Tinto PLC (LON:RIO) was up 1.80% or 65.50 points to 3710.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were British American Tobacco PLC (LON:BATS), which fell 1.50% or 75.00 points to trade at 4920.00 at the close. Shire PLC (LON:SHP) declined 1.44% or 56.50 points to end at 3863.50 and Unilever PLC (LON:ULVR) was down 1.38% or 57.50 points to 4125.50.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1159 to 906 and 166 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.37% or 4.70 to $1268.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.57% or 0.33 to hit $57.89 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.56% or 0.36 to trade at $64.16 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.14% to 1.3405, while EUR/GBP rose 0.19% to 0.8861.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 92.88.