Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Construction & Materials, Food & Drug Retailers and Industrial Metals & Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.64%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Relx PLC (LON:REL), which rose 2.94% or 38.00 points to trade at 1332.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) added 2.20% or 47.00 points to end at 2186.00 and WPP PLC (LON:WPP) was up 1.83% or 30.00 points to 1673.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were CRH PLC (LON:CRH), which fell 2.88% or 80.00 points to trade at 2701.00 at the close. Barratt Developments PLC (LON:BDEV) declined 2.77% or 13.400 points to end at 469.500 and Berkeley Group Hldgs (LON:BKGH) was down 2.54% or 63.00 points to 2419.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1362 to 941 and 462 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.31% or 3.75 to $1228.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.57% or 0.26 to hit $45.55 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.66% or 0.31 to trade at $46.64 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.01% to 1.2457, while EUR/GBP fell 0.15% to 0.8597.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.04% at 100.24.