LONDON: U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Chemicals, Industrial Metals & Mining and Food & Drug Retailers sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the FTSE 100 gained 0.97%.
The best performers of the session on the FTSE 100 were International Airlines Group (LONDON:ICAG), which rose 3.39% or 18.00 points to trade at 549.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Kingfisher (LONDON:KGF) added 3.01% or 10.60 points to end at 363.00 and WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC (LONDON:MRW) was up 3.01% or 5.20 points to 178.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were BG Group (LONDON:BG), which fell 0.88% or 9.50 points to trade at 1071.00 at the close. Coca Cola HBC AG (LONDON:CCH) declined 0.59% or 8.0 points to end at 1345.0 and National Grid (LONDON:NG) was down 0.48% or 4.10 points to 851.10.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1976 to 672 and 431 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.16% or 1.80 to $1156.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.68% or 0.36 to hit $53.10 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.19% or 0.11 to trade at $59.11 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.11% to 1.5517, while EUR/GBP fell 1.14% to 0.7107.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.87% at 96.79.
