{"id":20710,"date":"2022-04-14T09:47:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/04\/14\/ftse-100-subdued-as-pound-rises-for-second-day\/"},"modified":"2022-04-14T09:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T09:47:59","slug":"ftse-100-subdued-as-pound-rises-for-second-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/04\/14\/ftse-100-subdued-as-pound-rises-for-second-day\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Subdued As Pound Rises For Second Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks were subdued on Thursday, with a stronger pound and a decline in energy stocks weighing on sentiment. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was marginally lower at 7,575 after having finished little changed the previous day.<\/p>\n<p>GlaxoSmithKline, Imperial Brands and British American Tobacco were down between 0.7 percent and 0.9 percent as the pound edged higher for a second day running amid speculation the Bank of England will raise rates again in May. <\/p>\n<p>BP Plc was little changed and Royal Dutch Shell dropped 0.7 percent as oil prices slipped in thin trade ahead of a public holiday. <\/p>\n<p>Travel and leisure stocks were moving higher, with low-cost airline Wizz Air climbing more than 7 percent on signs of encouraging summer bookings. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 Subdued As Pound Rises For Second Day<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2022-04-14 09:47:59<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks were subdued on Thursday, with a stronger pound and a decline in energy stocks weighing on sentiment. The benchmark FTSE 100 was marginally lower at 7,575 after having&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710","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=20710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/20711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}