Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Household Goods & Home Construction, General Industrial and Construction & Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.50%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (LON:RB), which rose 4.08% or 279.00 points to trade at 7109.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS) added 3.02% or 200.00 points to end at 6815.00 and Compass Group PLC (LON:CPG) was up 3.01% or 42.00 points to 1439.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Worldpay Group PLC (LON:WPG), which fell 2.64% or 7.600 points to trade at 280.100 at the close. Capita PLC (LON:CPI) declined 2.42% or 12.10 points to end at 486.90 and 3I Group PLC (LON:III) was down 2.19% or 15.500 points to 692.500.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1032 to 882 and 435 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.83% or 10.05 to $1218.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.17% or 0.09 to hit $53.79 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.07% or 0.04 to trade at $56.84 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.93% to 1.2542, while EUR/GBP rose 1.19% to 0.8608.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 99.57.