Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mobile Telecommunications, Mining and Oil Equipment Services & Distribution sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.98%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were SKY PLC (LON:SKYB), which rose 2.85% or 26.50 points to trade at 955.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Carnival PLC (LON:CCL) added 1.76% or 59.00 points to end at 3410.00 and Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS) was up 1.38% or 90.00 points to 6625.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Antofagasta PLC (LON:ANTO), which fell 6.26% or 28.30 points to trade at 423.40 at the close. Glencore PLC (LON:GLEN) declined 5.32% or 7.7500 points to end at 137.9500 and Vodafone Group PLC (LON:VOD) was down 4.91% or 11.3500 points to 219.6500.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1368 to 684 and 433 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.84% or 10.55 to $1272.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.48% or 0.76 to hit $50.47 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.26% or 0.66 to trade at $51.85 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.32% to 1.4457, while EUR/GBP fell 0.31% to 0.7830.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.47% at 94.03.