Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas Producers and Industrial Metals & Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.35%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Berkeley Group Hldgs (LON:BKGH), which rose 3.67% or 89.00 points to trade at 2517.00 at the close. Meanwhile, ITV PLC (LON:ITV) added 2.70% or 4.50 points to end at 171.20 and Next PLC (LON:NXT) was up 2.47% or 119.00 points to 4939.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Antofagasta PLC (LON:ANTO), which fell 3.91% or 28.50 points to trade at 700.00 at the close. Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) declined 3.44% or 44.00 points to end at 1234.00 and BHP Billiton PLC (LON:BLT) was down 3.03% or 41.00 points to 1313.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1151 to 1146 and 425 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.40% or 4.80 to $1186.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 3.84% or 1.81 to hit $45.27 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 3.60% or 1.77 to trade at $47.44 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.70% to 1.2502, while EUR/GBP fell 0.62% to 0.8498.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 101.18.