Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Aerospace & Defense, Mining and Food Producers sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 gained 0.20%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were DCC (LON:DCC), which rose 5.65% or 360.0 points to trade at 6735.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) added 5.24% or 78.00 points to end at 1566.00 and Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS) was up 4.06% or 290.00 points to 7435.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were BP PLC (LON:BP), which fell 4.08% or 19.45 points to trade at 457.10 at the close. CRH PLC (LON:CRH) declined 2.45% or 69.00 points to end at 2745.00 and Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN) was down 1.56% or 12.500 points to 791.100.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1167 to 794 and 421 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.29% or 3.55 to $1235.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.87% or 0.99 to hit $52.02 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 1.47% or 0.82 to trade at $54.90 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.21% to 1.2495, while EUR/GBP fell 0.71% to 0.8559.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 100.26.