{"id":12986,"date":"2021-08-17T09:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/17\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-early-trade\/"},"modified":"2021-08-17T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:23:18","slug":"ftse-100-little-changed-in-early-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/17\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-early-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Little Changed In Early Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks were little changed on Tuesday after the headline unemployment rate for the second quarter came in slightly lower than forecast. <\/p>\n<p>The U.K. unemployment rate declined in the second quarter, the Office for National Statistics reported earlier today. <\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate dropped 0.2 percentage points to 4.7 percent in the second quarter. This was slightly below the expected rate of 4.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there was a quarterly increase in the employment rate of 0.3 percentage points to 75.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was marginally higher at 7,158 after losing 0.9 percent the previous day. <\/p>\n<p>BHP Group shares soared 6.7 percent. The miner posted its best annual profit in nearly a decade and confirmed the spin-off of its crude assets.<\/p>\n<p>Commodity company Glencore fell about 1 percent after it acquired a stake in U.K. battery maker Britishvolt.<\/p>\n<p>Pearson shares were down about 2 percent. The publishing and education company has agreed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to pay $1 million to settle charges for misleading investors about cyber breach. <\/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 Little Changed In Early Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-17 09:23:18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks were little changed on Tuesday after the headline unemployment rate for the second quarter came in slightly lower than forecast. The U.K. unemployment rate declined in the second&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986","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=12986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}