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U.K. stocks higher at close of trade; Investing.com United Kingdom 100 up 0.68%

Published 09/22/2017, 12:15 PM
© Reuters.  U.K. stocks higher at close of trade; Investing.com United Kingdom 100 up 0.68%
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Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil Equipment Services & Distribution, Pharmaceuticals & Biotech and Chemicals sectors led shares higher.

At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.68%.

The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Johnson Matthey PLC (LON:JMAT), which rose 3.01% or 102.00 points to trade at 3492.00 at the close. Meanwhile, AstraZeneca PLC (LON:AZN) added 3.01% or 143.50 points to end at 4912.00 and Standard Life PLC (LON:SLA) was up 2.71% or 11.30 points to 427.80 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Smiths Group PLC (LON:SMIN), which fell 5.95% or 96.00 points to trade at 1517.00 at the close. Kingfisher PLC (LON:KGF) declined 1.17% or 3.50 points to end at 296.70 and Capita PLC (LON:CPI) was down 1.14% or 6.50 points to 563.00.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1024 to 884 and 469 ended unchanged.

Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.36% or 4.61 to $1299.41 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.08% or 0.04 to hit $50.51 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.35% or 0.20 to trade at $56.63 a barrel.

GBP/USD was down 0.43% to 1.3524, while EUR/GBP rose 0.56% to 0.8841.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 91.90.

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