Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Mobile Telecommunications, Food Producers and General Retailers sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Glencore PLC (LON:GLEN), which rose 3.75% or 14.40 points to trade at 398.00 at the close. Hargreaves Lansdown PLC (LON:HRGV) added 2.18% or 44.00 points to end at 2059.00 and International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (LON:ICAG) was up 1.83% or 12.80 points to 712.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Dixons Carphone PLC (LON:DC), which lost 2.76% or 5.45 points to trade at 192.30 in late trade. Intu Properties PLC (LON:INTUP) declined 2.39% or 4.70 points to end at 192.30 and Capita PLC (LON:CPI) shed 1.74% or 2.65 points to 149.65.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1009 to 978 and 329 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.21% or 2.70 to $1302.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.35% or 0.23 to hit $66.59 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.63% or 0.48 to trade at $76.36 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.05% to 1.3379, while EUR/GBP rose 0.27% to 0.8808.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.59.