{"id":10763,"date":"2021-06-14T09:34:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/06\/14\/ftse-100-rises-ahead-of-pms-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2021-06-14T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:34:09","slug":"ftse-100-rises-ahead-of-pms-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/06\/14\/ftse-100-rises-ahead-of-pms-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Rises Ahead Of PM&#8217;s Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks were modestly higher on Monday after the G7 summit ended with a pledge to continue to support economies with investment until pandemic subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>Investors await a decision by the government later in the day on whether to delay England&#8217;s reopening from a third national lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Amid rising infections of Delta variant of <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span>, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce a four-week delay to an end to all legal lockdown restrictions in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 rose 25 points, or 0.4 percent, to 7,160 after ending 0.7 percent higher on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Outsourcer Serco Group surged 4.6 percent after upgrading its profit guidance. <\/p>\n<p>Luxury clothing retailer Ted Baker rallied 4 percent. After reporting a wider loss for its fiscal 2021, the company said the performance of Ted Baker stores since their reopening in April was &#8220;very pleasing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Dutch Shell jumped nearly 2 percent on a Reuters report that the energy giant is reviewing its holdings in the largest U.S. oil field for a potential sale.<\/p>\n<p>British Airways parent IAG fell 2.4 percent, airline EasyJet dropped 1.6 percent and Wizz Air Holdings gave up 1.1 percent on concerns over possible delay to the lockdown lifting. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>FTSE 100 Rises Ahead Of PM&#8217;s Press Conference<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-06-14 09:34:09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks were modestly higher on Monday after the G7 summit ended with a pledge to continue to support economies with investment until pandemic subsidies. Investors await a decision by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/10764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}