Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Aerospace & Defense, Mobile Telecommunications and Household Goods & Home Construction sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the FTSE 100 lost 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the FTSE 100 were Admiral Group PLC (LONDON:ADML), which rose 4.47% or 65.00 points to trade at 1518.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Fresnillo PLC (LONDON:FRES) added 3.66% or 23.00 points to end at 652.00 and RSA Insurance Group PLC (LONDON:RSA) was up 2.16% or 9.300 points to 440.200 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were EasyJet PLC (LONDON:EZJ), which fell 3.20% or 55.00 points to trade at 1666.00 at the close. Barratt Developments PLC (LONDON:BDEV) declined 2.49% or 16.00 points to end at 625.50 and Ashtead Group PLC (LONDON:AHT) was down 2.34% or 25.00 points to 1043.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1577 to 1027 and 440 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.18% or 2.00 to $1104.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.59% or 0.30 to hit $50.74 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.22% or 0.12 to trade at $56.77 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.05% to 1.5556, while EUR/GBP rose 1.12% to 0.7034.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.79% at 97.41.