Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Automobiles & Parts, Household Goods & Home Construction and Technology Hardware & Equipment sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Marks and Spencer Group PLC (LON:MKS), which rose 2.65% or 7.70 points to trade at 297.70 at the close. Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN) added 2.63% or 19.10 points to end at 745.70 and British American Tobacco PLC (LON:BATS) was up 2.48% or 90.50 points to 3746.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ferguson Plc (LON:FERG), which lost 3.55% or 221.12 points to trade at 6000.00 in late trade. Capita PLC (LON:CPI) declined 2.37% or 3.70 points to end at 152.70 and Old Mutual PLC (LON:OML) shed 1.89% or 4.20 points to 218.20.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1218 to 775 and 332 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.18% or 2.30 to $1305.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.65% or 0.43 to hit $66.17 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.03% or 0.02 to trade at $76.48 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.22% to 1.3378, while EUR/GBP rose 0.43% to 0.8816.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 93.53.