Investing.com – U.K. equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Mining and Mobile Telecommunications sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.71%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Glencore PLC (L:GLEN), which rose 3.51% or 2.9900 points to trade at 88.2600 at the close. Travis Perkins PLC (L:TPK) added 2.89% or 56.00 points to end at 1992.00 and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (L:ICAG) was up 2.52% or 15.00 points to 611.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included J Sainsbury PLC (L:SBRY), which lost 5.17% or 13.200 points to trade at 242.100 in late trade. Next PLC (L:NXT) declined 4.59% or 330.00 points to end at 6860.00 and Weir Group PLC (L:WEIR) shed 2.46% or 23.50 points to 930.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1248 to 892 and 488 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was up 0.33% or 3.50 to $1078.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.55% or 0.57 to hit $36.19 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.97% or 0.73 to trade at $36.48 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.42% to 1.4653, while EUR/GBP fell 0.47% to 0.7326.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.63% at 99.56.