U.K. Stocks Snap Eight-Day Winning Streak as Glencore Slides
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U.K. stocks retreated, snapping an eight-day winning streak, with commodity producers and Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc leading declines.
Glencore Plc tumbled 6.2 percent and Anglo American Plc lost 4.8 percent. Rolls-Royce fell 3.9 percent after the Financial Times reported that European regulators have started a probe into whether airlines are being forced to enter anti-competitive service contracts with component manufacturers. Standard Chartered Plc slid 3.1 percent after Investec Plc said that consensus estimates for revenue and earnings are too high.