Investing.com – U.K. equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Mining, Oil Equipment Services & Distribution and Aerospace & Defense sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in London, the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 gained 0.30%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the Investing.com United Kingdom 100 were Rio Tinto PLC (LON:RIO), which rose 3.29% or 78.500 points to trade at 2467.500 at the close. Glencore PLC (LON:GLEN) added 3.21% or 5.7500 points to end at 185.0000 and BHP Billiton PLC (LON:BLT) was up 3.15% or 33.00 points to 1080.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AstraZeneca PLC (LON:AZN), which lost 1.12% or 56.00 points to trade at 4955.00 in late trade. Shire PLC (LON:SHP) declined 1.06% or 52.00 points to end at 4850.00 and Burberry Group PLC (LON:BRBY) shed 0.97% or 13.000 points to 1320.000.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 1216 to 842 and 509 ended unchanged on the London Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.00% or 0.05 to $1324.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.21% or 0.10 to hit $47.23 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.52% or 0.26 to trade at $49.41 a barrel.
GBP/USD was down 0.38% to 1.3142, while EUR/GBP fell 0.19% to 0.8540.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.56% at 95.21.