Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Life Insurance/Assurance and General Industrial sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 declined 0.34%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were National Grid PLC (LON:NG), which rose 2.46% or 20.80 points to trade at 867.10 at the close. Meanwhile, Informa PLC (LON:INF) added 2.33% or 16.60 points to end at 728.20 and Unilever PLC (LON:ULVR) was up 1.85% or 75.00 points to 4121.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Persimmon PLC (LON:PSN), which fell 7.52% or 183.00 points to trade at 2250.00 at the close. Paddy Power Betfair PLC (LON:PPB) declined 7.01% or 425.00 points to end at 5640.00 and Schroders PLC (LON:SDR) was down 5.91% or 163.00 points to 2595.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1460 to 619 and 339 ended unchanged.
Shares in Paddy Power Betfair PLC (LON:PPB) fell to 3-years lows; down 7.01% or 425.00 to 5640.00.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.07% or 0.85 to $1286.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.59% or 0.33 to hit $56.55 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 0.42% or 0.28 to trade at $66.27 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.61% to 1.3089, while EUR/GBP fell 0.19% to 0.8567.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.66% at 97.438.