{"id":12501,"date":"2021-08-03T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T09:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/03\/ftse-100-edges-higher-on-earnings\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T09:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T09:44:33","slug":"ftse-100-edges-higher-on-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/03\/ftse-100-edges-higher-on-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Edges Higher On Earnings"},"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 eked out modest gains on Tuesday as a set of upbeat earnings results from the likes of Standard Chartered and BP Plc supported optimism around a faster economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 rose 26 points, or 0.4 percent, to 7,107 after gaining 0.7 percent on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>BP Plc shares soared 4.6 percent. The oil &amp; gas giant expanded its dividend and share buyback program after delivering better-than-expected second-quarter earnings. <\/p>\n<p>Standard Chartered rallied 2.1 percent. The lender resumed interim dividend payout and announced a $250 million share buyback after posting a better-than-expected 57 percent jump in its first-half pretax profit.<\/p>\n<p>Keller Group shares jumped 8.6 percent. The geotechnical specialist contractor reported a better than expected first half profit and said its performance for fiscal 2021 will be materially ahead of the board&#8217;s previous expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Moto insurer Direct Line Insurance advanced 4.5 percent after reporting a rise in first-half profit and lifting dividend. <\/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 Edges Higher On Earnings<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-03 09:44:33<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks eked out modest gains on Tuesday as a set of upbeat earnings results from the likes of Standard Chartered and BP Plc supported optimism around a faster economic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12502,"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-12501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501","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=12501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}