U.K. shares lower at close of trade; Investing.com United Kingdom 100 down 0.41% By Investing.com

Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Fixed Line Telecommunications, Oil & Gas Producers and Banking sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 declined 0.41%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Bank VTB PAO DRC (LON:VTBRq), which rose 5.13% or 0.068 points to trade at 1.394 at the close. Ferguson Plc (LON:FERG) added 2.74% or 280.0 points to end at 10505.0 and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd DRC (LON:0593xq) was up 1.84% or 29.50 points to 1635.50 in late trade.

Biggest losers included B&M European Value Retail SA (LON:BMEB), which lost 2.75% or 15.80 points to trade at 559.00 in late trade. NatWest Group PLC (LON:NWG) declined 2.56% or 5.60 points to end at 213.10 and International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (LON:ICAG) shed 2.54% or 4.16 points to 159.36.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1082 to 910 and 477 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.01% or 0.15 to $1812.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.62% or 0.43 to hit $68.78 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 0.44% or 0.32 to trade at $71.91 a barrel.

GBP/USD was down 0.07% to 1.3749, while EUR/GBP rose 0.17% to 0.8586.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 92.698.