Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas Producers, Forestry & Paper and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.63%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Land Securities Group PLC (LON:LAND), which rose 3.02% or 27.40 points to trade at 935.60 at the close. Meanwhile, Micro Focus International PLC (LON:MCRO) added 2.67% or 51.50 points to end at 1983.00 and Severn Trent PLC (LON:SVT) was up 2.13% or 42.00 points to 2011.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Anglo American PLC (LON:AAL), which fell 3.90% or 84.50 points to trade at 2080.50 at the close. Royal Mail PLC (LON:RMG) declined 3.75% or 9.80 points to end at 251.50 and WPP PLC (LON:WPP) was down 2.65% or 24.80 points to 911.40.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1048 to 1044 and 319 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.40% or 5.15 to $1278.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.75% or 0.50 to hit $65.80 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.16% or 0.12 to trade at $74.39 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.10% to 1.2925, while EUR/GBP fell 0.50% to 0.8632.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.40% at 97.708.