FTSE 100 opens in the green today; shares mixed

Investing.com – U.K. equities started mixed on Friday, with rises in Personal Goods, Beverages and Industrial Engineering. The top losers were Mining, Household Goods and Media sectors.

At the market open in London, the FTSE 100 Index rose 0.13%. The FTSE 250 Index and the FTSE 350 Index also climbed. The FTSE 250 increased 0.40%, while the FTSE 350 was up by 0.18%.

Top Gainers:

Prudential (LON:PRU): Climbed 3.08% or 21.00 points to 703.00.

Smith & Nephew PLC (LON:SN): Increased 1.33% or 15.00 points to 1,146.50.

Pershing Square (LON:PSHP): Rose 1.21% or 43.48 points to 3,651.48.

Top Losers:

Fresnillo (LON:FRES): Fell 1.10% or 7.00 points to 629.50.

Barclays (LON:BARC): Dropped 1.17% or 2.65 points to 224.40.

NatWest (LON:NWG) Group: Declined 1.01% or 3.50 points to 342.80.

In Commodities Trading:

• Gold Futures for December delivery dropped 4.95 points to 2,689.95 a troy ounce.
• Crude Oil for November delivery climbed 0.04 points to 67.71 a barrel.
• December Brent Oil Contract increased 0.04% or 0.03 points to 71.12 a barrel.

Currency Markets:

• GBP/USD has stabilised itself at 1.33 at this time.
• EUR/GBP is at 0.8327 at the time of writing.
• The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.17% at 100.417.

Main Economic Events:

Today's main economic events in the United Kingdom are the CBI Distributive Trades Survey and the CFTC GBP speculative net positions data.