Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Mining and Oil Equipment Services & Distribution sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 declined 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Land Securities Group PLC (LON:LAND), which rose 3.07% or 32.00 points to trade at 1074.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Sports Direct International PLC (LON:SPD) added 2.69% or 6.900 points to end at 263.000 and Dixons Carphone PLC (LON:DC) was up 2.64% or 8.80 points to 341.80 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Glencore PLC (LON:GLEN), which fell 3.49% or 6.5000 points to trade at 179.9000 at the close. Rio Tinto PLC (LON:RIO) declined 3.47% or 85.500 points to end at 2377.000 and Weir Group PLC (LON:WEIR) was down 3.03% or 47.00 points to 1502.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1077 to 972 and 433 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.23% or 3.05 to $1332.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.76% or 0.35 to hit $45.59 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.40% or 0.19 to trade at $46.77 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 1.13% to 1.3106, while EUR/GBP rose 0.55% to 0.8400.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.60% at 97.14.