Lloyds, Barclays and RBS were the among the worst-performing stocks in London "as investors are concerned about the losses other banks have incurred 'hedging their risk' following the 2bn dollar loss by JP Morgan Chase & Co", Alpari's Erlam said. HSBC was also out of favour after announcing that the sale of its operations in Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Paraguay for 400m dollars in cash. Falling metals prices were providing downward pressure on the share prices of the blue-chip miners, with Vedanta, Kazakhmys, Xstrata and BHP Billiton all lower. Polymetal International fell after announcing the sale of its Veduga gold deposit in the Krasnoyarsk region of Russia for $20m. FTSE 100 - RisersSevern Trent (SVT) 1,711.00p +1.06%United Utilities Group (UU.) 647.00p +0.78%Sage Group (SGE) 262.30p +0.23%International Power (IPR) 419.30p +0.07%British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSY) 694.00p +0.07%FTSE 100 - FallersMan Group (EMG) 82.50p -6.14%Barclays (BARC) 190.45p -6.09%Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY) 29.23p -5.97%Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) 21.78p -5.14%Aberdeen Asset Management (ADN) 247.80p -5.06%Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. (ENRC) 492.00p -4.74%Johnson Matthey (JMAT) 2,165.00p -4.63%Tullow Oil (TLW) 1,396.00p -4.58%Xstrata (XTA) 1,006.00p -4.37%CRH (CRH) 1,117.00p -4.04%NR