Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Industrial Metals & Mining, General Industrial and Forestry & Paper sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 gained 0.19%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN), which rose 3.51% or 22.80 points to trade at 672.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Glencore PLC (LON:GLEN) added 3.02% or 9.75 points to end at 332.45 and Schroders PLC (LON:SDR) was up 2.33% or 70.00 points to 3068.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Relx PLC (LON:REL), which fell 1.59% or 26.50 points to trade at 1640.50 at the close. Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (LON:HIK) declined 1.34% or 24.00 points to end at 1760.00 and Royal Mail PLC (LON:RMG) was down 1.24% or 3.30 points to 262.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1249 to 813 and 340 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.12% or 1.55 to $1294.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.93% or 0.59 to hit $64.17 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 1.10% or 0.78 to trade at $71.61 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.28% to 1.3090, while EUR/GBP rose 0.17% to 0.8629.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 96.578.