{"id":14806,"date":"2021-10-08T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T09:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/10\/08\/ftse-100-holds-steady-on-china-data\/"},"modified":"2021-10-08T09:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T09:20:35","slug":"ftse-100-holds-steady-on-china-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/10\/08\/ftse-100-holds-steady-on-china-data\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Holds Steady On China Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks held steady on Friday after a survey showed China&#8217;s service sector recovered in September with renewed and strong increases in both new work and output.<\/p>\n<p>The Caixin services Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index rose to 53.4 from 46.7 in August.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was marginally higher at 7,082 after rising 1.2 percent on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Harbour Energy surged 6.3 percent after announcing it has priced its senior notes offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 5.50 percent senior notes due October 2026.<\/p>\n<p>N Brown Group jumped 4 percent. The online fashion and homeware retailer doubled half year profits during a strong six month period for its strategic brands.<\/p>\n<p>Electronic parts distributor Electrocomponents gained 1 percent after raising its FY guidance. <\/p>\n<p>Travel stocks traded mostly higher, with British-Airways owner IAG climbing nearly 2 percent after the government announced it will scrap tough COVID-19 quarantine requirements for 47 destinations.<\/p>\n<p>However, TUI Group shares plunged more than 13 percent. The travel company unveiled plans to raise more than 1 billion euros in capital in order to help pay off more than substantial state-backed loans taken during the pandemic. <\/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 Holds Steady On China Data<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-10-08 09:20:35<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks held steady on Friday after a survey showed China&#8217;s service sector recovered in September with renewed and strong increases in both new work and output. The Caixin services&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-euro-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806","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=14806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/14807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}