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U.K. shares higher at close of trade; Investing.com United Kingdom 100 up 0.79%

Published 17/02/2018, 04:15 am
© Reuters.  U.K. shares higher at close of trade; Investing.com United Kingdom 100 up 0.79%

© Reuters. U.K. shares higher at close of trade; Investing.com United Kingdom 100 up 0.79%

WPP
-0.36%
HIK
-0.35%
CPI
-1.85%
BHPB
-0.38%
RRS
0.00%
ANTO
0.06%
FTNMX551020
-0.49%
FTNMX151020
-0.24%
FTNMX351020
-0.27%
invuk100
0.09%

Investing.com – U.K. equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Industrial Metals & Mining, Mobile Telecommunications and Real Estate Investment Trusts REITs sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 added 0.79%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Capita PLC (LON:CPI), which rose 5.25% or 9.50 points to trade at 190.50 at the close. WPP PLC (LON:WPP) added 4.18% or 59.00 points to end at 1471.00 and Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (LON:HIK) was up 3.75% or 33.80 points to 934.80 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS), which lost 2.14% or 138.00 points to trade at 6306.00 in late trade. Antofagasta PLC (LON:ANTO) declined 1.89% or 17.60 points to end at 914.60 and BHP Billiton PLC (LON:BLT) shed 1.29% or 20.60 points to 1577.40.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1350 to 568 and 158 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.07% or 0.90 to $1354.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.62% or 0.38 to hit $61.72 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.99% or 0.64 to trade at $64.97 a barrel.

GBP/USD was down 0.38% to 1.4044, while EUR/GBP fell 0.20% to 0.8852.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.49% at 88.90.

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