{"id":40099,"date":"2023-10-30T09:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T09:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2023\/10\/30\/ftse-100-gains-as-investors-look-to-boe\/"},"modified":"2023-10-30T09:23:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T09:23:38","slug":"ftse-100-gains-as-investors-look-to-boe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2023\/10\/30\/ftse-100-gains-as-investors-look-to-boe\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Gains As Investors Look To BoE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks opened the week on a positive note ahead of a busy week of central bank meetings. <\/p>\n<p>The Bank of England is to hold its penultimate meeting of the year on Thursday, with economists anticipating a &#8216;status quo policy update.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 57 points, or 0.8 percent, at 7,348 after declining 0.9 percent on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Ascential soared 35 percent after the information and analytics firm said it would sell its digital commerce and consumer research units for a combined enterprise value of 1.4 billion pounds ($1.70 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Commodity trader and miner Glencore rose 1.2 percent despite cutting its 2023 nickel production guidance. <\/p>\n<p>Frasers Group added 1.5 percent as it announced divestment of the IP of Missguided to Chinese clothing giant Shein.<\/p>\n<p>Premier Foods rose 1.1 percent after buying breakfast brand FUEL10K in a \u00a334m deal.<\/p>\n<p>Reckitt Benckiser advanced 1.4 percent after launching the first tranche of its share buyback program. <\/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 Gains As Investors Look To BoE<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2023-10-30 09:23:38<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks opened the week on a positive note ahead of a busy week of central bank meetings. The Bank of England is to hold its penultimate meeting of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40099","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\/40099","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=40099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/40100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}