Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Life Insurance/Assurance, Food & Drug Retailers and General Retailers sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 1.35%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Burberry Group PLC (LON:BRBY), which rose 0.57% or 8.000 points to trade at 1409.000 at the close. Meanwhile, London Stock Exchange Group PLC (LON:LSE) added 0.53% or 15.00 points to end at 2844.00 and Micro Focus International (LON:MCRO) was up 0.47% or 10.00 points to 2134.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were InterContinental Hotels Group PLC (LON:IHG), which fell 5.69% or 187.00 points to trade at 3098.00 at the close. Pearson PLC (LON:PSON) declined 4.22% or 32.00 points to end at 726.00 and Barratt Developments PLC (LON:BDEV) was down 4.08% or 20.300 points to 476.900.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1647 to 495 and 458 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.12% or 1.65 to $1343.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 3.17% or 1.41 to hit $45.89 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 2.84% or 1.32 to trade at $47.80 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.16% to 1.2976, while EUR/GBP rose 0.15% to 0.8680.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.30% at 95.12.