{"id":20623,"date":"2022-04-12T09:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T09:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/04\/12\/ftse-100-slides-as-retail-sales-fall\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T09:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T09:36:52","slug":"ftse-100-slides-as-retail-sales-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/04\/12\/ftse-100-slides-as-retail-sales-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Slides As Retail Sales Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks fell on Tuesday after data showed U.K. retail sales declined slightly in March.<\/p>\n<p>The like-for-like sales dropped 0.4 percent in March from the previous year as consumer confidence continued to weaken, the British Retail Consortium said. Total sales grew 3.1 percent, underpinned by non-food sales.<\/p>\n<p>The U.K. unemployment declined in three months to February while job vacancies rose to a new record high, the Office for National Statistics said separately. <\/p>\n<p>The jobless rate fell 0.2 percent points from the previous quarter to 3.8 percent in three months to February &#8211; coming in line with expectations. <\/p>\n<p>The employment rate was largely unchanged at 75.5 percent, remaining below the pre-pandemic level. while the number of job vacancies rose to a new record 1,288,000 in January to March period.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 28 points, or 0.4 percent, at 7,590 after closing 0.7 percent lower the previous day. <\/p>\n<p>easyJet climbed 0.7 percent. The budget airline said it expects capacity to rise to near pre-pandemic levels this summer. <\/p>\n<p>Online fashion retailer ASOS surged 4.7 percent after maintaining its full-year guidance. <\/p>\n<p>Electrocomponents added 1.7 percent after its like-for-like revenue for fiscal 2022 grew 23 percent over the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/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 As Retail Sales Fall<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2022-04-12 09:36:52<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks fell on Tuesday after data showed U.K. retail sales declined slightly in March. The like-for-like sales dropped 0.4 percent in March from the previous year as consumer confidence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623","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=20623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/20624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}