Investing.com – U.K. equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil Equipment Services & Distribution, Food Producers and Banking sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 added 1.67%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN), which rose 8.66% or 31.90 points to trade at 400.30 at the close. Associated British Foods PLC (LON:ABF) added 8.02% or 146.0 points to end at 1967.0 and Carnival PLC (LON:CCL) was up 7.28% or 77.0 points to 1134.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (LON:HIK), which lost 3.03% or 78.00 points to trade at 2493.00 in late trade. Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (LON:RB) declined 1.91% or 138.0 points to end at 7086.0 and Halma PLC (LON:HLMA) shed 1.63% or 38.0 points to 2292.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1349 to 665 and 125 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.07% or 1.15 to $1750.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.04% or 0.37 to hit $35.12 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.55% or 0.21 to trade at $38.05 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 1.02% to 1.2470, while EUR/GBP fell 0.81% to 0.8924.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.48% at 97.873.