{"id":46461,"date":"2024-04-29T09:14:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T09:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/04\/29\/ftse-100-edges-higher-in-cautious-trade-18\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T09:14:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T09:14:37","slug":"ftse-100-edges-higher-in-cautious-trade-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/04\/29\/ftse-100-edges-higher-in-cautious-trade-18\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Edges Higher In Cautious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks advanced on Monday as data from property platform Zoopla suggested that U.K. house sales rose for the seventh consecutive month in April, driven by demand for smaller homes. <\/p>\n<p>House prices experienced a growth of 1.9 percent in February, indicating a \u00a35,318 increase over the past year. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 40 points, or half a percent, at 8,180 after adding 0.8 percent on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Mining giant Anglo American rose 1.3 percent as its board unanimously rejected a US$39Bn takeover bid from Australia-based BHP, saying the offer &#8220;significantly undervalues&#8221; the company and its future prospects and was &#8220;highly unattractive&#8221; for Anglo American&#8217;s shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford Biomedica shares jumped 6.4 percent. The cell and gene therapy contract development and manufacturing organization reported stability in its core <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> and reiterated its near-term and medium-term financial guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Drug major AstraZeneca added 1.3 percent after announcing progress with two breast cancer treatments. <\/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 Edges Higher In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2024-04-29 09:14:37<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks advanced on Monday as data from property platform Zoopla suggested that U.K. house sales rose for the seventh consecutive month in April, driven by demand for smaller homes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46461","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=46461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/46462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}