Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Fixed Line Telecommunications, Oil & Gas Producers and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.95%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Coca Cola HBC AG (LON:CCH), which rose 9.23% or 219.0 points to trade at 2592.0 at the close. Worldpay Group PLC (LON:WPG) added 4.89% or 19.00 points to end at 407.50 and Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS) was up 1.29% or 95.00 points to 7475.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included BT Group PLC (LON:BT), which lost 4.60% or 14.40 points to trade at 298.90 in late trade. Rio Tinto PLC (LON:RIO) declined 3.32% or 119.50 points to end at 3479.50 and Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LON:LLOY) shed 3.11% or 2.08 points to 64.83.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1394 to 502 and 462 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.84% or 10.81 to $1290.11 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.67% or 0.33 to hit $49.23 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.27% or 0.14 to trade at $52.56 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.24% to 1.2974, while EUR/GBP rose 0.19% to 0.9059.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 93.40.