London shares extended their losses on Monday as China's stock market had its second worst day since the turn of the century.
The FTSE 100 Index shed 36.07 points to 6543 after the Shanghai Composite dipped 8.5% - its biggest drop since 2007.
Data showed China industrial profits fell 0.3% in June after a year-on-year gain of 0.6% last month.
Jasper Lawler at CMC Markets said the falls came despite unprecedented government intervention to prop up the market.
But he added: "Although more government intervention is expected, the data shows some link between stock market performance and real company profits."
In the UK, a Confederation of British Industry survey for July showed the strong pound still hitting UK manufacturing exports.
Further falls in the price of US light crude and Brent crude hit oil majors. West Texas Intermediate lost 0.6% to US$48.14 and Brent was 1.2% down at US$54.62.
BP (LON:BP.) fell 6.35p to 388.35p and Royal Dutch Shell (LON:RDSB) reversed 5p to 1,765p despite Brazilian regulators' approval of its purchase of BG Group (LON:BG.), whose shares deflated 3.5p to 1,032p.
Chilean copper miner Antofagasta (LON:ANTO) lost its shine by 12.5p to 576.5p, Glencore (LON:GLEN) drifted 2.5p to 207.6p, but Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) climbed 3.5p to 2,404p and BHP Billiton (LON:BLT) advanced 9.5p to 1,133p.
Friday saw the major US benchmarks on the skids as investors mulled underwhelming results from some heavy hitters such as Apple, Caterpillar and IBM.
Back in London, a busy week is in prospect, with the oil majors and the banks set to report, along with a host of FTSE 100 companies.
Reckitt Benckiser (LON:RB.) kicked off the flurry of updates with news of a 5% rise in first half net revenue, helped by demand for influenza treatments. Shares were up 133p at 6,041p.
Ryanair (LON:RYA) flew €0.11 lower to €12.16 as the Irish budget airline posted higher first quarter profits but said it had little idea about where prices were going in the second half of the year.
Ariana Resources (LON:AAU) were flat at 1p as the Anglo-Turkish gold explorer and developer raised £1mln in a placing to fund development of its Red Rabbit project in Turkey.
Solgold (LON:SOLG) sparkled 0.02p to 2.32p on drilling results at the company's Cascabel copper-gold porphyry project in Ecuador.
Mixer tonic maker Fevertree (LON:FEVR) bubbled up 3.5p to 369.5p on news of higher profits and new supermarket contracts.