Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Tobacco, Industrial Metals & Mining and Forestry & Paper sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Next PLC (LON:NXT), which rose 3.71% or 164.00 points to trade at 4579.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Shire PLC (LON:SHP) added 3.10% or 119.70 points to end at 3979.40 and Sage Group PLC (LON:SGE) was up 1.86% or 14.50 points to 795.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were GlaxoSmithKline PLC (LON:GSK), which fell 1.27% or 16.7 points to trade at 1302.0 at the close. Mediclinic International PLC (LON:MDCM) declined 1.19% or 7.50 points to end at 622.50 and Anglo American PLC (LON:AAL) was down 1.16% or 17.57 points to 1501.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1016 to 886 and 166 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.62% or 7.90 to $1278.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.22% or 0.13 to hit $58.23 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.12% or 0.08 to trade at $64.98 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.04% to 1.3380, while EUR/GBP fell 0.14% to 0.8858.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 92.94.