Today U.K. stocks higher at close of trade

Today U.K. stocks higher at close of trade

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

At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 gained 2.00% to hit a new 3-months high.

The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Anglo American PLC , which rose 11.05% or 70.60 points to trade at 709.30 at the close. Meanwhile, Standard Chartered PLC added 10.64% or 50.100 points to end at 520.800 and BHP Billiton PLC  was up 9.18% or 74.20 points to 882.80 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Tesco PLC, which fell 7.79% or 15.3000 points to trade at 181.0000 at the close. WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC declined 1.99% or 4.00 points to end at 197.20 and Randgold Resources Ltd was down 1.24% or 85.00 points to 6775.00.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1664 to 499 and 407 ended unchanged.

Gold for June delivery was down 1.06% or 13.40 to $1247.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.09% or 0.04 to hit $42.13 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.34% or 0.15 to trade at $44.54 a barrel.

GBP/USD was down 0.29% to 1.4219, while EUR/GBP fell 0.59% to 0.7935.

The US Dollar Index was up 0.76% at 94.73.