{"id":12097,"date":"2021-07-22T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T09:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/07\/22\/ftse-100-struggles-for-direction-3\/"},"modified":"2021-07-22T09:31:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T09:31:20","slug":"ftse-100-struggles-for-direction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/07\/22\/ftse-100-struggles-for-direction-3\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Struggles For Direction"},"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 struggled for direction on Thursday and the pound edged higher versus the euro as investors await the ECB rate decision later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was marginally higher at 7,004 after gaining 1.7 percent on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Housebuilder Barratt Developments surged 2.6 percent and Taylor Wimpey added 2.3 percent after data released earlier this week showed U.K. house sales hit record levels in June.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Inn owner Whitbread advanced 2.8 percent and transport firm FirstGroup soared 4 percent on expectations they will reap the benefits of reopening.<\/p>\n<p>Real estate investment trust Workspace Group gained 2.4 percent after saying it was witnessing demand at pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>British Gas owner Centrica dropped 1.4 percent after it reported broadly flat operating profit for the first six months of 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer goods group Unilever plunged almost 5 percent after it announced a drop in first-half profits on rising costs. <\/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 Struggles For Direction<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-07-22 09:31:20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks struggled for direction on Thursday and the pound edged higher versus the euro as investors await the ECB rate decision later in the day. The benchmark FTSE 100&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12098,"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-12097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097","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=12097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}