U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Life Insurance/Assurance, Tobacco and General Industrial sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the United Kingdom 100 declined 2.50% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the United Kingdom 100 were Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES), which rose 4.75% or 29.00 points to trade at 640.00 at the close. Meanwhile, NMC Health PLC (LON:NMC) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 2402.00 and Croda International PLC (LON:CRDA) was down 0.04% or 2.00 points to 4674.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Hargreaves Lansdown PLC (LON:HRGV), which fell 6.83% or 139.50 points to trade at 1903.50 at the close. Prudential PLC (LON:PRU) declined 5.53% or 88.50 points to end at 1512.00 and Taylor Wimpey PLC (LON:TW) was down 5.18% or 8.05 points to 147.40.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1812 to 408 and 142 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.24% or 18.05 to $1475.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.15% or 0.64 to hit $55.02 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 2.96% or 1.83 to trade at $60.06 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.02% to 1.2151, while EUR/GBP rose 0.96% to 0.9223.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.60% at 97.262.
