Investing.com – U.K. equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil Equipment Services & Distribution, Banking and Aerospace & Defense sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 declined 0.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Tui AG (LON:TUIT), which rose 3.90% or 40.00 points to trade at 1067.00 at the close. Shire PLC (LON:SHP) added 3.22% or 159.00 points to end at 5095.00 and Burberry Group PLC (LON:BRBY) was up 3.17% or 40.000 points to 1301.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (LON:RBS), which lost 4.43% or 8.600 points to trade at 185.600 in late trade. Barclays PLC (LON:BARC) declined 2.83% or 4.80 points to end at 164.70 and Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN) shed 2.74% or 17.100 points to 607.100.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1079 to 1037 and 448 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.51% or 6.75 to $1311.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 1.84% or 0.81 to hit $43.10 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 1.37% or 0.64 to trade at $45.95 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 1.19% to 1.3083, while EUR/GBP rose 0.42% to 0.8529.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.73% at 95.98.