Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil Equipment Services & Distribution, Forestry & Paper and Industrial Engineering sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 2.09%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Pearson PLC (LON:PSON), which rose 1.68% or 14.00 points to trade at 849.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Next PLC (LON:NXT) added 1.20% or 64.00 points to end at 5380.00 and Kingfisher PLC (LON:KGF) was up 0.88% or 2.00 points to 228.60 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN), which fell 4.58% or 27.80 points to trade at 578.60 at the close. Antofagasta PLC (LON:ANTO) declined 4.07% or 39.80 points to end at 937.40 and Ashtead Group PLC (LON:AHT) was down 3.95% or 76.50 points to 1860.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1573 to 515 and 312 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.37% or 4.85 to $1312.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 2.25% or 1.35 to hit $58.63 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 2.09% or 1.42 to trade at $66.44 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.64% to 1.3191, while EUR/GBP fell 1.36% to 0.8556.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 96.183.