U.K. stocks lower at close of trade; Investing.com United Kingdom 100 down 0.08%

Investing.com – U.K. stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the , and sectors led shares lower.

At the close in London, the declined 0.08%.

The best performers of the session on the were Londonmetric Property Plc (LON:), which rose 2.56% or 5.10 points to trade at 204.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Entain PLC (LON:) added 2.22% or 14.00 points to end at 646.00 and Flutter Entertainment PLC (LON:) was up 2.05% or 325.00 points to 16,200.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Fresnillo PLC (LON:), which fell 2.34% or 13.00 points to trade at 541.50 at the close. Whitbread PLC (LON:) declined 1.77% or 52.00 points to end at 2,885.00 and Intermediate Capital Group PLC (LON:) was down 1.67% or 36.00 points to 2,126.00.

Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the London Stock Exchange by 1037 to 727 and 714 ended unchanged.

Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.93% or 23.80 to $2,536.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 2.37% or 1.80 to hit $74.11 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract fell 1.88% or 1.48 to trade at $77.34 a barrel.

GBP/USD was unchanged 0.30% to 1.31, while EUR/GBP unchanged 0.12% to 0.84.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.30% at 101.58.