Investing.com – U.K. equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Mining, Insurance and Industrial Metals & Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 added 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Burberry Group PLC (LON:BRBY), which rose 5.08% or 64.50 points to trade at 1,335.50 at the close. Frasers Group PLC (LON:FRAS) added 4.98% or 39.00 points to end at 822.50 and Ocado Group PLC (LON:OCDO) was up 4.60% or 23.60 points to 536.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (LON:RR), which lost 2.83% or 9.00 points to trade at 309.10 in late trade. AstraZeneca PLC (LON:AZN) declined 2.66% or 260.00 points to end at 9,501.00 and GSK plc (LON:GSK) shed 2.02% or 33.60 points to 1,626.40.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1109 to 652 and 689 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.42% or 8.65 to $2,030.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.12% or 0.09 to hit $76.75 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.41% or 0.34 to trade at $81.85 a barrel.
GBP/USD was unchanged 0.06% to 1.26, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.11% to 0.85.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 103.97.