Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas Producers, Fixed Line Telecommunications and Chemicals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Carnival PLC (LON:CCL), which rose 6.02% or 85.4 points to trade at 1504.4 at the close. Sberbank Of Russia (LON:SBNCyq) added 5.37% or 0.73 points to end at 14.32 and GMK Norilskiy Nikel PAO DRC (LON:NKELyq) was up 4.39% or 1.26 points to 29.94 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ocado Group PLC (LON:OCDO), which lost 12.94% or 182.00 points to trade at 1225.00 in late trade. Shell PLC (LON:SHEL) declined 3.18% or 65.5 points to end at 1996.0 and London Stock Exchange Group PLC (LON:LSEG) shed 2.95% or 212.0 points to 6976.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1052 to 868 and 439 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.33% or 5.95 to $1827.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 2.03% or 1.85 to hit $89.47 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 2.06% or 1.91 to trade at $90.78 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.07% to 1.3543, while EUR/GBP fell 0.27% to 0.8429.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 95.630.