{"id":48851,"date":"2024-07-03T09:24:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/07\/03\/ftse-100-rises-ahead-of-elections-miners-outperform\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T09:24:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T09:24:41","slug":"ftse-100-rises-ahead-of-elections-miners-outperform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/07\/03\/ftse-100-rises-ahead-of-elections-miners-outperform\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Rises Ahead Of Elections; Miners Outperform"},"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 as focus shifted to the July 4 election, which could see a possible end to 14 years of Conservative government.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Party is set to grab 484 out of the total 650 seats in the Parliament, a pre-poll company Survation projected.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 49 points, or 0.6 percent, at 8,170 after falling 0.6 percent on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Higher copper prices boosted mining stocks, with Antofagasta and Glencore both rising around 2 percent. <\/p>\n<p>Retailer JD Sports fell nearly 2 percent after Barclays downgraded the stock to &#8220;underweight&#8221; from &#8220;equalweight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Topps Tiles tumbled 3.3 percent after the tile retailer reported a sales drop in its third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Technology company Johnson Matthey rallied 2.6 percent after launching a share buyback program. <\/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 Rises Ahead Of Elections; Miners Outperform<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2024-07-03 09:24:41<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks traded higher on Wednesday as focus shifted to the July 4 election, which could see a possible end to 14 years of Conservative government. The Labour Party is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48852,"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-48851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48851","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=48851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/48852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}