Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas Producers and Beverage sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 declined 0.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Johnson Matthey PLC (LON:JMAT), which rose 2.84% or 91.00 points to trade at 3300.00 at the close. Associated British Foods PLC (LON:ABF) added 2.23% or 63.00 points to end at 2891.00 and J Sainsbury PLC (LON:SBRY) was up 2.11% or 5.30 points to 256.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Provident Financial (LON:PFG), which lost 12.61% or 116.00 points to trade at 804.00 in late trade. Capita PLC (LON:CPI) declined 6.18% or 26.00 points to end at 395.00 and Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) shed 3.47% or 49.50 points to 1378.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1093 to 937 and 148 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.02% or 0.30 to $1334.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.82% or 0.53 to hit $63.77 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.47% or 1.03 to trade at $69.23 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.15% to 1.3771, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.8890.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 90.36.