Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Household Goods & Home Construction, Software & Computer Services and Chemicals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.61%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Merlin Entertainments PLC (LON:MERL), which rose 4.12% or 14.10 points to trade at 356.50 at the close. Standard Life Aberdeen PLC (LON:SLA) added 2.39% or 8.70 points to end at 372.90 and International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (LON:ICAG) was up 1.32% or 8.00 points to 616.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (LON:RB), which lost 7.51% or 493.00 points to trade at 6075.00 in late trade. Shire PLC (LON:SHP) declined 2.86% or 91.50 points to end at 3110.50 and Micro Focus International PLC (LON:MCRO) shed 2.83% or 60.00 points to 2058.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1123 to 798 and 140 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.47% or 6.40 to $1349.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.28% or 0.79 to hit $62.34 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.97% or 0.63 to trade at $65.47 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.17% to 1.4004, while EUR/GBP rose 0.34% to 0.8859.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 89.12.