Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Automobiles & Parts, Household Goods & Home Construction and Industrial Engineering sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.85%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were EasyJet PLC (LON:EZJ), which rose 3.69% or 45.50 points to trade at 1280.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Burberry Group PLC (LON:BRBY) added 2.93% or 52.00 points to end at 1828.00 and Hammerson PLC (LON:HMSO) was up 2.60% or 9.00 points to 355.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (LON:RB), which fell 4.06% or 245.00 points to trade at 5784.00 at the close. Ferguson Plc (LON:FERG) declined 3.41% or 181.00 points to end at 5123.00 and Ashtead Group PLC (LON:AHT) was down 3.01% or 58.00 points to 1870.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1144 to 899 and 297 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.07% or 0.95 to $1284.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.81% or 0.96 to hit $52.05 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.67% or 1.03 to trade at $60.47 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.81% to 1.3062, while EUR/GBP fell 0.50% to 0.8721.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.23% at 95.743.