{"id":13310,"date":"2021-08-26T09:47:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/26\/ftse-100-declines-as-covid-worries-weigh\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T09:47:51","slug":"ftse-100-declines-as-covid-worries-weigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/26\/ftse-100-declines-as-covid-worries-weigh\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Declines As COVID Worries Weigh"},"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 fell on Thursday as investors weighed risks from rising global COVID-19 infections and China&#8217;s regulatory crackdown. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 30 points, or 0.4 percent, at 7,120 after four straight sessions of gains. <\/p>\n<p>Travel-related stocks fell, with TUI AG and Wizz Air Holdings falling over 2 percent each. <\/p>\n<p>Recruitment company Hays rallied 2 percent after it proposed to resume core and special dividends. <\/p>\n<p>Miner Polymetal lost 2 percent after revising its FY2021 capex guidance. <\/p>\n<p>Building material company CRH advanced 1.4 percent after posting positive first-half results. <\/p>\n<p>Barclays edged down slightly. The lender said it would infuse over Rs 3,000 crore in India to boost its local growth.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca gained 0.8 percent. The drug major announced that the Japanese government approved Forxiga (dapagliflozin), a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 or SGLT2 inhibitor, to treat chronic kidney disease. <\/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 Declines As COVID Worries Weigh<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-26 09:47:51<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks fell on Thursday as investors weighed risks from rising global COVID-19 infections and China&#8217;s regulatory crackdown. The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 30 points, or 0.4 percent, at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13311,"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-13310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310","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=13310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}