{"id":44861,"date":"2024-03-15T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/03\/15\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade-vodafone-shares-up-over-4\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:12:03","slug":"ftse-100-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade-vodafone-shares-up-over-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/03\/15\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade-vodafone-shares-up-over-4\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Little Changed In Lackluster Trade; Vodafone Shares Up Over 4%"},"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 slightly lower on Friday as hotter-than-expected U.S. core CPI and PPI readings dashed hopes for an early rate cut by the Federal Reserve. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down marginally at 7,741 after falling 0.4 percent in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Group shares jumped 4.3 percent. The telecom major announced a binding agreement to sell Vodafone Italy to telecom service provider Swisscom AG for an enterprise value of 8 billion euros.<\/p>\n<p>Housebuilder Berkeley Group was marginally higher after backing its annual pre-tax profit guidance. <\/p>\n<p>Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust added nearly 2 percent. The company said its Board has now decided to make available at least \u00a31 billion to purchase its shares over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Thermal processing expert Bodycote soared 5 percent after posting a rise in profits and commencing a \u00a360m 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 Little Changed In Lackluster Trade; Vodafone Shares Up Over 4%<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2024-03-15 09:12:03<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks traded slightly lower on Friday as hotter-than-expected U.S. core CPI and PPI readings dashed hopes for an early rate cut by the Federal Reserve. The benchmark FTSE 100&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44862,"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-44861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44861","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=44861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/44862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}