{"id":12000,"date":"2021-07-20T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/07\/20\/ftse-100-gains-on-economic-optimism-2\/"},"modified":"2021-07-20T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T09:27:33","slug":"ftse-100-gains-on-economic-optimism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/07\/20\/ftse-100-gains-on-economic-optimism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Gains On Economic Optimism"},"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 rose notably on Tuesday, with banks and commodity-related stocks leading the gains amid optimism that the <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span> is on a strong footing.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 climbed 46 points, or 0.7 percent, to 6,891 after tumbling 2.3 percent in the previous session on concerns about the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The British pound hit a five-month low against the dollar and hovered near a five-week low against the euro as a global surge in <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> cases kept investors jittery.<\/p>\n<p>BP Plc rose 1.3 percent and Royal Dutch Shell added 0.7 percent as oil prices rebounded after seeing their worst plunge in 16 months overnight. <\/p>\n<p>Miners Anglo American, Antofagasta and Glencore gained more than 1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Banks were also moving higher, with HSBC Holdings rising nearly 1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Airline easyJet jumped 3.1 percent after it posted a smaller-than-expected pretax quarterly loss. <\/p>\n<\/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 Gains On Economic Optimism<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-07-20 09:27:33<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks rose notably on Tuesday, with banks and commodity-related stocks leading the gains amid optimism that the economy is on a strong footing. The benchmark FTSE 100 climbed 46&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12001,"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-12000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000","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=12000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}