Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Forestry & Paper, Mining and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.68%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Merlin Entertainments PLC (LON:MERL), which rose 9.41% or 32.00 points to trade at 372.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Burberry Group PLC (LON:BRBY) added 3.81% or 58.50 points to end at 1592.00 and Shire PLC (LON:SHP) was up 3.63% or 113.00 points to 3222.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were WPP PLC (LON:WPP), which fell 8.18% or 114.00 points to trade at 1280.00 at the close. Capita PLC (LON:CPI) declined 4.97% or 8.75 points to end at 167.40 and EasyJet PLC (LON:EZJ) was down 3.99% or 67.00 points to 1612.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1255 to 647 and 145 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.59% or 7.80 to $1310.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 1.23% or 0.76 to hit $60.88 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 1.48% or 0.96 to trade at $63.77 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.18% to 1.3735, while EUR/GBP rose 0.32% to 0.8889.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 90.62.