Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Life Insurance/Assurance and Food Producers sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 added 2.67%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Hargreaves Lansdown PLC (LON:HRGV), which rose 8.90% or 94.00 points to trade at 1150.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Associated British Foods PLC (LON:ABF) added 8.72% or 205.00 points to end at 2555.00 and Land Securities Group PLC (LON:LAND) was up 8.68% or 79.00 points to 989.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES), which fell 2.29% or 34.00 points to trade at 1449.00 at the close. Antofagasta PLC (LON:ANTO) declined 1.87% or 7.90 points to end at 415.20 and Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS) was down 0.87% or 70.00 points to 7965.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1779 to 486 and 327 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.53% or 7.05 to $1317.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.81% or 0.84 to hit $47.17 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.65% or 0.79 to trade at $48.56 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.57% to 1.3302, while EUR/GBP fell 0.32% to 0.8308.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.17% at 96.39.