{"id":35861,"date":"2023-06-28T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2023\/06\/28\/ftse-100-edges-higher-on-optimism-over-us-growth\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:14:20","slug":"ftse-100-edges-higher-on-optimism-over-us-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2023\/06\/28\/ftse-100-edges-higher-on-optimism-over-us-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Edges Higher On Optimism Over US Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks traded higher on Wednesday, with travel-related stocks leading the surge on optimism about the U.S. <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 32 points, or 0.4 percent, at 7,493 after closing 0.1 percent higher the previous day. <\/p>\n<p>Airline EasyJet rose about 1 percent and Wizz Air Holdings climbed 2.3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Software firm Sage soared 4.5 percent after a brokerage upgrade. <\/p>\n<p>Mulberry Group jumped 3.2 percent after reiterating its full-year guidance.<\/p>\n<p>EKF Diagnostics fell over 3 percent on news that its Chief Financial Officer Marc Davies is stepping down to pursue other opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Beowulf Mining declined 1.4 percent as it announced the appointment of Ed Bowie as CEO. <\/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 Edges Higher On Optimism Over US Growth<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2023-06-28 09:14:20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks traded higher on Wednesday, with travel-related stocks leading the surge on optimism about the U.S. economy. The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 32 points, or 0.4 percent, at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35861","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=35861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/35862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}