{"id":12585,"date":"2021-08-05T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T09:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/05\/ftse-100-little-changed-ahead-of-boe-decision\/"},"modified":"2021-08-05T09:49:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T09:49:57","slug":"ftse-100-little-changed-ahead-of-boe-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/05\/ftse-100-little-changed-ahead-of-boe-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Little Changed Ahead Of BoE Decision"},"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 little changed on Thursday as investors digested a slew of earnings and awaited the Bank of England&#8217;s rate decision for cues on its asset purchase plans. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was marginally higher at 7,124 after closing about 0.3 percent higher on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Glencore fell about 1 percent. The commodity trading and mining company raised expectations for its trading division, but lowered full-year guidance for nickel and coal, citing output disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>Gold mining company Centamin tumbled 3 percent after its net profit for the first half of the year fell 20 percent, reflecting weaker gold production and higher unitary costs.<\/p>\n<p>Real estate investment trust company Hammerson declined 1.8 percent after releasing mixed half-year results. <\/p>\n<p>WPP rallied 2.3 percent. The advertising group said its revenues had returned to pre-pandemic levels a year sooner than it had expected.<\/p>\n<p>Paper and packaging group Mondi jumped 2.5 percent after reporting a stable set of results for the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Troubled engineering group Rolls Royce Holdings soared 3.7 percent after it moved back into the black in the first half of the year. <\/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 Little Changed Ahead Of BoE Decision<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-05 09:49:57<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks were little changed on Thursday as investors digested a slew of earnings and awaited the Bank of England&#8217;s rate decision for cues on its asset purchase plans. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12586,"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-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585","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=12585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}