{"id":12710,"date":"2021-08-09T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T09:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/09\/ftse-100-slides-on-weak-commodity-prices\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T09:37:44","slug":"ftse-100-slides-on-weak-commodity-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/09\/ftse-100-slides-on-weak-commodity-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Slides On Weak Commodity Prices"},"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 moving lower on Monday as commodity prices fell on concerns the spread of the Delta variant of the <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> could dampen the prospects of a sharp economic rebound from the pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 dropped 24 points, or 0.3 percent, to 7,098 after ending on a flat note Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Miner Antofagasta dropped 1 percent and Glencore shed half a percent as copper eased on a firmer dollar. <\/p>\n<p>BP Plc fell nearly 2 percent and Royal Dutch Shell declined 1.4 percent as Brent futures slumped more than 4 percent on concerns about potential global oil demand erosion.<\/p>\n<p>Vectura shares jumped 4.6 percent after the drug maker received a higher bid from Philip Morris International Inc. <\/p>\n<p>Deliveroo soared 9.4 percent after German food delivery group Delivery Hero built a 5 percent stake in its U.K. rival. <\/p>\n<p>Financial services company Hargreaves Lansdown plunged almost 10 percent after an earnings miss. <\/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 Slides On Weak Commodity Prices<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-09 09:37:44<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks were moving lower on Monday as commodity prices fell on concerns the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus could dampen the prospects of a sharp economic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12711,"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-12710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710","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=12710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}