Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Mining, Industrial Metals & Mining and Industrial Transportation sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.57%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES), which rose 9.99% or 91.50 points to trade at 1007.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Anglo American PLC (LON:AAL) added 9.78% or 48.20 points to end at 540.90 and Glencore PLC (LON:GLEN) was up 9.49% or 13.7000 points to 158.0000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Shire PLC (LON:SHP), which fell 2.38% or 87.00 points to trade at 3568.00 at the close. Barclays PLC (LON:BARC) declined 2.07% or 3.4000 points to end at 160.6000 and EasyJet PLC (LON:EZJ) was down 2.04% or 31.000 points to 1485.000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1128 to 992 and 427 ended unchanged.
Shares in Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) rose to 52-week highs; gaining 9.99% or 91.50 to 1007.00.
Gold for April delivery was up 2.81% or 34.50 to $1264.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 3.48% or 1.34 to hit $39.80 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 2.33% or 0.94 to trade at $41.27 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 1.58% to 1.4485, while EUR/GBP fell 0.71% to 0.7815.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.99% at 94.75.