{"id":13031,"date":"2021-08-18T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/18\/ftse-100-slides-on-inflation-retreat\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T09:38:08","slug":"ftse-100-slides-on-inflation-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/18\/ftse-100-slides-on-inflation-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Slides On Inflation Retreat"},"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 edged lower on Wednesday after data showed British inflation fell to the Bank of England&#8217;s 2 percent target last month. <\/p>\n<p>The pound hovered near a 3-1\/2-week low as consumer price inflation eased from a 2.5 percent increase in June to the 2 percent goal for the first time since April. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 dropped 20 points, or 0.3 percent, to 7,161 after closing 0.4 percent higher in the previous session. <\/p>\n<p>Miners Anglo American, Antofagasta and Glencore all fell about 1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Industrial group Rotork rose over 1 percent after launching a \u00a350mln share buy-back program. <\/p>\n<p>Sirius Real Estate advanced 0.8 percent. The company said it has completed the acquisition of four <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> park assets and one land parcel for about 84.8 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>Construction company Balfour Beatty plunged 6.3 percent despite swinging to a half-year profit. <\/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 Inflation Retreat<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-18 09:38:08<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks edged lower on Wednesday after data showed British inflation fell to the Bank of England&#8217;s 2 percent target last month. The pound hovered near a 3-1\/2-week low as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13032,"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-13031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031","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=13031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}