NEW YORK: U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Real Estate Investment Trusts REITs, Real Estate and Construction & Materials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the FTSE 100 gained 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the FTSE 100 were CRH (LONDON:CRH), which rose 2.33% or 43.00 points to trade at 1885.00 at the close. Meanwhile, British Land Co Plc (LONDON:BLND) added 2.29% or 19.00 points to end at 850.00 and Land Securities Group Plc (LONDON:LAND) was up 2.13% or 27.00 points to 1296.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Royal Mail (LONDON:RMG), which fell 4.49% or 23.20 points to trade at 493.30 at the close. Vodafone Group PLC (LONDON:VOD) declined 2.91% or 7.10 points to end at 237.00 and Standard Chartered (LONDON:STAN) was down 2.06% or 22.50 points to 1071.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1522 to 1076 and 448 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.61% or 7.20 to $1179.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.47% or 0.90 to hit $60.53 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 1.26% or 0.82 to trade at $64.88 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.24% to 1.5492, while EUR/GBP fell 0.54% to 0.7252.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.64% at 95.19.
