Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Mining, Industrial Transportation and Fixed Line Telecommunications sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.43%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were AstraZeneca PLC (LON:AZN), which rose 3.96% or 349.0 points to trade at 9150.0 at the close. Hargreaves Lansdown PLC (LON:HRGV) added 1.60% or 20.50 points to end at 1298.00 and Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) was up 1.60% or 11.00 points to 696.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sberbank Of Russia (LON:SBNCyq), which lost 17.58% or 2.28 points to trade at 10.69 in late trade. NK Rosneft PAO DRC (LON:ROSNq) declined 15.35% or 1.07 points to end at 5.90 and Bank VTB PAO DRC (LON:VTBRq) shed 12.66% or 0.137 points to 0.945.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1631 to 326 and 406 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.07% or 1.40 to $1901.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 2.19% or 1.98 to hit $92.19 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 2.29% or 2.09 to trade at $93.48 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.14% to 1.3608, while EUR/GBP fell 0.07% to 0.8322.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 95.963.