Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Household Goods & Home Construction, Food Producers and Pharmaceuticals & Biotech sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 declined 0.02%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Provident Financial (LON:PFG), which rose 4.94% or 44.00 points to trade at 935.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN) added 3.12% or 23.40 points to end at 772.10 and RSA Insurance Group PLC (LON:RSA) was up 2.40% or 15.00 points to 641.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES), which fell 3.60% or 51.00 points to trade at 1367.00 at the close. Unilever PLC (LON:ULVR) declined 3.21% or 138.00 points to end at 4161.00 and Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (LON:RB) was down 2.65% or 180.00 points to 6610.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1085 to 850 and 432 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.53% or 6.81 to $1283.19 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $51.30 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.07% or 0.04 to trade at $57.27 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.27% to 1.3195, while EUR/GBP fell 0.85% to 0.8930.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.56% at 93.52.