Investing.com – U.K. equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Food Producers and General Retailers sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.27%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Old Mutual Ltd (LON:OMU), which rose 3.72% or 4.20 points to trade at 117.20 at the close. Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) added 2.59% or 22.00 points to end at 872.00 and Associated British Foods PLC (LON:ABF) was up 2.42% or 56.00 points to 2370.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Carnival PLC (LON:CCL), which lost 8.46% or 351.00 points to trade at 3800.00 in late trade. Ferguson Plc (LON:FERG) declined 7.16% or 370.00 points to end at 4800.00 and EasyJet PLC (LON:EZJ) shed 2.77% or 32.00 points to 1123.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1121 to 955 and 334 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.61% or 8.05 to $1320.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.90% or 1.12 to hit $59.94 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.88% or 0.59 to trade at $67.40 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.08% to 1.3212, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8541.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 96.203.