Investing.com – U.K. stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Food & Drug Retailers, Industrial Metals & Mining and Software & Computer Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 rose 0.31%.
The best performers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Tesco PLC (LON:TSCO), which rose 9.29% or 17.55 points to trade at 206.55 at the close. Meanwhile, Fresnillo PLC (LON:FRES) added 4.08% or 56.00 points to end at 1428.00 and Randgold Resources Ltd (LON:RRS) was up 2.49% or 160.00 points to 6580.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Pearson PLC (LON:PSON), which fell 2.41% or 15.00 points to trade at 607.00 at the close. EasyJet PLC (LON:EZJ) declined 2.11% or 21.000 points to end at 974.000 and Antofagasta PLC (LON:ANTO) was down 1.73% or 14.50 points to 822.50.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the London Stock Exchange by 990 to 884 and 464 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.24% or 2.85 to $1186.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.90% or 1.02 to hit $52.76 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 2.15% or 1.21 to trade at $55.03 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.52% to 1.2534, while EUR/GBP rose 0.58% to 0.8528.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.10% at 100.62.