U.K. stocks higher at close of trade; United Kingdom 100 up 0.71%

U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Mining and Mobile Telecommunications sectors led shares higher.

At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.71%.

The best performers of the session on the  United Kingdom 100 were Glencore PLC (L:GLEN), which rose 3.51% or 2.9900 points to trade at 88.2600 at the close. Meanwhile, Travis Perkins PLC (L:TPK) added 2.89% or 56.00 points to end at 1992.00 and International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (L:ICAG) was up 2.52% or 15.00 points to 611.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were J Sainsbury PLC (L:SBRY), which fell 5.17% or 13.200 points to trade at 242.100 at the close. Next PLC (L:NXT) declined 4.59% or 330.00 points to end at 6860.00 and Weir Group PLC (L:WEIR) was down 2.46% or 23.50 points to 930.50.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1248 to 892 and 488 ended unchanged.

Gold for February delivery was up 0.34% or 3.70 to $1078.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.63% or 0.60 to hit $36.16 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 2.08% or 0.78 to trade at $36.45 a barrel.

GBP/USD was down 0.42% to 1.4653, while EUR/GBP fell 0.47% to 0.7326.

The US Dollar Index was up 0.63% at 99.56.

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