{"id":20835,"date":"2022-04-20T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/04\/20\/ftse-100-inches-higher-amid-earnings-deluge\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T09:49:09","slug":"ftse-100-inches-higher-amid-earnings-deluge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2022\/04\/20\/ftse-100-inches-higher-amid-earnings-deluge\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Inches Higher Amid Earnings Deluge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks were seeing modest gains on Wednesday as investors assessed a deluge of earnings reports. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 0.4 percent at 7,630, led by gains in defensive stocks.<\/p>\n<p>Banks climbed, with Standard Chartered, Lloyds Bank and HSBC Holding rising 2-3 percent on expectations that they will benefit from higher interest rates. <\/p>\n<p>CRH jumped more than 5 percent after the building materials supplier said it expects sales and earnings margins to grow over the first half of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering firm Senior Plc added 2 percent after reporting Q1 performance in line with expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Miners Anglo American, Antofagasta and Glencore all fell around 2 percent as base metals prices fell. <\/p>\n<p>Centamin slumped 7 percent after reporting a drop in is first-quarter gold production. <\/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 Inches Higher Amid Earnings Deluge<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2022-04-20 09:49:09<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks were seeing modest gains on Wednesday as investors assessed a deluge of earnings reports. The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 0.4 percent at 7,630, led by gains in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20835","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=20835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/20836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}