{"id":39680,"date":"2023-10-18T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2023\/10\/18\/ftse-100-little-changed-as-inflation-holds-steady\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T09:18:41","slug":"ftse-100-little-changed-as-inflation-holds-steady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2023\/10\/18\/ftse-100-little-changed-as-inflation-holds-steady\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Little Changed As Inflation Holds Steady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks were little changed on Wednesday after data showed annual consumer price inflation remained elevated at 6.7 percent in September, bucking expectations for a further decline. <\/p>\n<p>Investors also reacted to a deepening crisis in the Middle East and improved economic readings from China. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was marginally higher at 7,676 after rising 0.6 percent the previous day on the back of favorable labor market data.<\/p>\n<p>BP Plc rose about 1 percent and Shell added 0.6 percent as oil prices surged nearly 2 percent following Gaza hospital attack.<\/p>\n<p>Miner BHP edged up slightly despite logging a small decline in iron ore production during the September quarter. <\/p>\n<p>Housebuilder Barratt Developments fell 2.5 percent after an announcement that it sees a 10 percent drop in reservation rates in Q1.<\/p>\n<p>Concrete-products company Marshalls jumped 6.7 percent after maintaining its full-year expectations. <\/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 Little Changed As Inflation Holds Steady<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2023-10-18 09:18:41<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks were little changed on Wednesday after data showed annual consumer price inflation remained elevated at 6.7 percent in September, bucking expectations for a further decline. Investors also reacted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-euro-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39680","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=39680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/39681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}