Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil Equipment Services & Distribution, Automobiles & Parts and Industrial Metals & Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Relx PLC (LON:REL), which rose 2.89% or 53.00 points to trade at 1886.00 at the close. Rentokil Initial PLC (LON:RTO) added 2.83% or 12.20 points to end at 443.90 and Sage Group PLC (LON:SGE) was up 2.60% or 17.20 points to 677.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tui AG (LON:TUIT), which lost 4.62% or 40.80 points to trade at 841.60 in late trade. Mondi PLC (LON:MNDI) declined 3.04% or 51.00 points to end at 1625.00 and Smurfit Kappa Group PLC (LON:SKG) shed 2.99% or 78.00 points to 2528.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1288 to 851 and 189 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.17% or 2.55 to $1514.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 4.76% or 2.98 to hit $59.69 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 5.35% or 3.69 to trade at $65.33 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.68% to 1.2513, while EUR/GBP fell 0.03% to 0.8845.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.41% at 97.768.