Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Automobiles & Parts and Mobile Telecommunications sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 gained 0.51%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Glencore PLC (L:GLEN), which rose 5.92% or 6.5500 points to trade at 117.1000 at the close. Meanwhile, Ashtead Group PLC (L:AHT) added 3.90% or 37.00 points to end at 987.00 and GKN PLC (L:GKN) was up 3.45% or 9.60 points to 287.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Travis Perkins PLC (L:TPK), which fell 6.01% or 118.00 points to trade at 1845.00 at the close. Pearson PLC (L:PSON) declined 4.86% or 48.50 points to end at 950.00 and Kingfisher PLC (L:KGF) was down 4.20% or 15.40 points to 351.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1260 to 860 and 466 ended unchanged.
Shares in Pearson PLC (L:PSON) fell to 3-years lows; falling 4.86% or 48.50 to 950.00.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.03% or 0.30 to $1167.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.40% or 0.18 to hit $45.38 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.39% or 0.18 to trade at $48.03 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.18% to 1.5388, while EUR/GBP fell 1.60% to 0.7235.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.27% at 96.29.