Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil Equipment Services & Distribution, Banking and Aerospace & Defense sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 fell 0.35%.
The best performers 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. Meanwhile, 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.
The worst performers of the session were Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (LON:RBS), which fell 4.43% or 8.600 points to trade at 185.600 at the close. Barclays PLC (LON:BARC) declined 2.83% or 4.80 points to end at 164.70 and Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN) was down 2.74% or 17.100 points to 607.100.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1079 to 1037 and 448 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.51% or 6.75 to $1311.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, 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 0.72% at 95.97.