Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Forestry & Paper and Automobiles & Parts sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.16%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN), which rose 3.02% or 22.00 points to trade at 749.20 at the close. Tesco PLC (LON:TSCO) added 3.00% or 5.85 points to end at 201.00 and J Sainsbury PLC (LON:SBRY) was up 2.75% or 6.40 points to 239.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Provident Financial (LON:PFG), which lost 10.17% or 89.50 points to trade at 790.50 in late trade. Dixons Carphone PLC (LON:DC) declined 2.48% or 4.10 points to end at 161.40 and Anglo American PLC (LON:AAL) shed 2.46% or 34.00 points to 1351.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1162 to 900 and 155 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.87% or 11.10 to $1266.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.21% or 0.12 to hit $57.59 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.58% or 0.36 to trade at $62.81 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.27% to 1.3445, while EUR/GBP fell 0.11% to 0.8792.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 93.32.