Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Life Insurance/Assurance and Food & Drug Retailers sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 1.83%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were G4S PLC (LON:GFS), which rose 1.19% or 2.20 points to trade at 187.40 at the close. Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (LON:RR) added 0.67% or 4.00 points to end at 603.50 and Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) was up 0.25% or 3.00 points to 1214.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Standard Life PLC (LON:SL), which lost 4.36% or 14.400 points to trade at 316.200 in late trade. Tesco PLC (LON:TSCO) declined 4.02% or 6.3500 points to end at 151.5500 and BHP Billiton PLC (LON:BLT) shed 3.81% or 32.80 points to 827.30.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 1724 to 376 and 420 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was up 0.11% or 1.35 to $1274.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 2.27% or 1.15 to hit $49.41 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 2.18% or 1.13 to trade at $50.82 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.82% to 1.4339, while EUR/GBP rose 0.49% to 0.7868.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.34% at 94.42.