{"id":13440,"date":"2021-08-31T09:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/31\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-cautious-trade-3\/"},"modified":"2021-08-31T09:21:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T09:21:40","slug":"ftse-100-little-changed-in-cautious-trade-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/08\/31\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-cautious-trade-3\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Little Changed In Cautious Trade"},"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 held steady on Tuesday as signs of a slowdown in China&#8217;s <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span> spurred hopes for more policy support. <\/p>\n<p>Official data showed that China&#8217;s services industry contracted in August for the first time since the height of the pandemic early last year.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was little changed at 7,142 as traders returned to their desks after a long holiday weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Banks as well as energy stocks were moving lower, while miner Anglo American rose half a percent and Antofagasta climbed 1.4 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Bunzl Plc fell 2.6 percent after the <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> supplies distributor flagged that it was facing supply chain disruptions, product shortages and a labour crunch in certain markets.<\/p>\n<p>Travel-related stocks declined after European Union governments agreed to remove the United States from the EU&#8217;s safe travel list.<\/p>\n<p>British Airways-owner IAG lost 2.7 percent, Wizz Air Holdings shed 2.4 percent, Ryanair Holdings fell 2.2 percent and Easyjet gave up 1.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson rose about 2 percent after JP Morgan raised its price target on the plumbing and heating parts distributor.<\/p>\n<p>Construction and fabrication outfit Lamprell gained about 0.7 percent after it issued an update on progress made towards the recapitalization of its balance sheet. <\/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 In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-08-31 09:21:40<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks held steady on Tuesday as signs of a slowdown in China&#8217;s economy spurred hopes for more policy support. Official data showed that China&#8217;s services industry contracted in August&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13441,"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-13440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440","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=13440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/13441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}