{"id":53663,"date":"2024-12-06T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/12\/06\/ftse-100-remains-directionless-ahead-of-us-jobs-data\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T09:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T09:33:30","slug":"ftse-100-remains-directionless-ahead-of-us-jobs-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2024\/12\/06\/ftse-100-remains-directionless-ahead-of-us-jobs-data\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Remains Directionless Ahead Of US Jobs Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks were marginally lower on Friday ahead of the U.S. jobs report due later in the day that could alter expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Halifax reported that Britain&#8217;s property sector gathered more pace in November, with house prices rising by a faster-than-expected 1.3 percent in November from October, the biggest increase this year. <\/p>\n<p>On an annual basis property prices were up 4.8 percent, the highest rate of increase since November 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 10 points, or 0.1 percent, at 8,340 after edging up by 0.2 percent on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Direct Line Insurance shares jumped nearly 7 percent.  The Insurer said it will recommend a sweetened \u00a33.61 billion takeover bid from Aviva, valuing the company at 275 pence per share. Aviva shares were down half a percent. <\/p>\n<p>Housebuilder Berkeley Group fell 1.4 percent after reporting a fall in half-year profits. <\/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 Remains Directionless Ahead Of US Jobs Data<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2024-12-06 09:33:30<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks were marginally lower on Friday ahead of the U.S. jobs report due later in the day that could alter expectations for Federal Reserve rate cuts. Meanwhile, Halifax reported&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53663","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\/53663","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=53663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/53664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}