Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking, Food & Drug Retailers and Industrial Metals & Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.32%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Barclays PLC (LON:BARC), which rose 5.23% or 10.55 points to trade at 212.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (LON:RBS) added 4.37% or 8.800 points to end at 210.400 and Capita PLC (LON:CPI) was up 4.18% or 23.00 points to 573.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT), which fell 3.77% or 82.00 points to trade at 2095.00 at the close. SSE PLC (LON:SSE) declined 3.17% or 47.00 points to end at 1436.00 and Associated British Foods PLC (LON:ABF) was down 3.16% or 82.00 points to 2516.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1184 to 1101 and 430 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.43% or 5.30 to $1219.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.46% or 1.07 to hit $42.34 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 2.35% or 1.05 to trade at $43.70 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.92% to 1.2477, while EUR/GBP fell 0.38% to 0.8595.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.14% at 100.12.