Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Mining, Gas, Water & Multiutilities and Industrial Metals & Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.44%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES), which rose 7.57% or 79.00 points to trade at 1123.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS) added 6.84% or 400.00 points to end at 6250.00 and Glencore PLC (LON:GLEN) was up 5.52% or 7.1000 points to 135.6500 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tesco PLC (LON:TSCO), which fell 4.42% or 7.5000 points to trade at 162.0000 at the close. J Sainsbury PLC (LON:SBRY) declined 4.17% or 10.700 points to end at 246.200 and WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC (LON:MRW) was down 3.82% or 7.50 points to 188.90.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1166 to 882 and 468 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was up 2.44% or 29.55 to $1242.15 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.71% or 0.35 to hit $48.82 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.54% or 0.27 to trade at $49.77 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.68% to 1.4521, while EUR/GBP rose 0.92% to 0.7803.
The US Dollar Index was down 1.49% at 94.14.