Investing.com – U.K. equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Aerospace & Defense, Insurance and Mobile Telecommunications sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 gained 0.84%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Meggitt PLC (LON:MGGT), which rose 2.78% or 11.90 points to trade at 440.20 at the close. Intermediate Capital Group PLC (LON:ICP) added 2.66% or 58.00 points to end at 2238.00 and 3I Group PLC (LON:III) was up 2.57% or 32.50 points to 1295.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Centrica PLC (LON:CNA), which lost 2.56% or 1.26 points to trade at 48.04 in late trade. Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) declined 1.69% or 12.80 points to end at 745.20 and International Consolidated Airlines Group S.A. (LON:ICAG) shed 1.13% or 1.92 points to 168.46.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1395 to 780 and 235 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.10% or 1.75 to $1803.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.04% or 0.03 to hit $71.94 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.14% or 0.10 to trade at $73.89 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.07% to 1.3754, while EUR/GBP rose 0.09% to 0.8554.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 92.942.