Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Technology Hardware & Equipment, Forestry & Paper and Oil & Gas Producers sectors led shares lower.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 lost 1.50%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were BT Group PLC (LON:BT), which rose 3.78% or 13.150 points to trade at 361.000 at the close. Meanwhile, Marks and Spencer Group PLC (LON:MKS) added 3.28% or 10.40 points to end at 327.20 and Next PLC (LON:NXT) was up 3.05% or 149.00 points to 5040.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES), which fell 8.95% or 141.00 points to trade at 1435.00 at the close. Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS) declined 6.74% or 430.00 points to end at 5955.00 and Standard Chartered PLC (LON:STAN) was down 6.34% or 41.800 points to 617.200.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1465 to 818 and 424 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 2.70% or 34.15 to $1232.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.71% or 1.21 to hit $43.45 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 2.73% or 1.25 to trade at $44.59 a barrel.
GBP/USD was up 0.45% to 1.2605, while EUR/GBP fell 0.89% to 0.8603.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.26% at 99.05.