{"id":15006,"date":"2021-10-14T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/10\/14\/ftse-100-gains-as-commodity-stocks-rally\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:44:38","slug":"ftse-100-gains-as-commodity-stocks-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/10\/14\/ftse-100-gains-as-commodity-stocks-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Gains As Commodity Stocks Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks rose on Thursday to hit a two-month high, with heavyweight mining and energy stocks leading the surge on optimism about a steady economic recovery from the pandemic-induced slowdown. <\/p>\n<p>The gains came despite the pound hitting a two-week high on expectations the Bank of England will increase rates this year. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 climbed 49 points, or 0.7 percent, to 7,191 after closing 0.2 percent higher on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Miners Anglo American, Antofagasta and Glencore gained 3-4 percent while oil &amp; gas firm BP Plc rose 1.2 percent and Royal Dutch Shell added 1.7 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Homewares chain Dunelm Group rallied 1.2 percent after reporting growth in first-quarter sales.<\/p>\n<p>Domino&#8217;s Pizza Group dropped more than 1 percent. The fast-food chain said it expects labour shortages and higher food costs to continue into the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Grainger jumped almost 4 percent. The property-investment company said that its occupancy rate has recovered to pre-<span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>Recruiter Hays climbed 2.8 percent after reporting a jump in quarterly net fees. <\/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 Gains As Commodity Stocks Rally<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-10-14 09:44:38<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks rose on Thursday to hit a two-month high, with heavyweight mining and energy stocks leading the surge on optimism about a steady economic recovery from the pandemic-induced slowdown&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006","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=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/15007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}