Stock market
U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Life Insurance/Assurance and Tobacco sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 added 1.66%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were AvivaPLC (LON:AV), which rose 6.70% or 25.800 points to trade at 410.800 at the close. Meanwhile, Inmarsat PLC (LON:ISA) added 6.21% or 48.50 points to end at 829.00 andStandard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN) was up 5.16% or 31.700 points to 646.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (LON:HIK), which fell 16.79% or 448.00 points to trade at 2220.00 at the close. Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS) declined 3.84% or 345.00 points to end at 8635.00 and Next PLC (LON:NXT) was down 2.62% or 140.00 points to 5200.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1487 to 583 and 509 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.28% or 3.85 to $1368.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 2.30% or 0.94 to hit $41.77 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.97% or 0.85 to trade at $43.95 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 1.48% to 1.3128, while EUR/GBP rose 1.36% to 0.8482.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.18% at 95.66.
Source by Investing.com
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