Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Fixed Line Telecommunications, Mining and General Retailers sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.61%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Shire PLC (LON:SHP), which rose 2.82% or 120.00 points to trade at 4380.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) added 2.28% or 23.00 points to end at 1032.00 and Pearson PLC (LON:PSON) was up 1.13% or 9.50 points to 848.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Wolseley PLC (LON:WOS), which fell 5.50% or 223.00 points to trade at 3828.00 at the close. J Sainsbury PLC (LON:SBRY) declined 4.32% or 11.600 points to end at 256.900 and Rio Tinto PLC (LON:RIO) was down 3.83% or 74.500 points to 1868.000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1407 to 636 and 425 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.69% or 8.45 to $1209.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.10% or 0.05 to hit $49.05 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.16% or 0.08 to trade at $49.97 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.57% to 1.4400, while EUR/GBP rose 0.99% to 0.7747.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.22% at 95.62.