{"id":55853,"date":"2025-02-05T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/05\/ftse-100-roughly-flat-gsk-rises-over-5\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:22:23","slug":"ftse-100-roughly-flat-gsk-rises-over-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/02\/05\/ftse-100-roughly-flat-gsk-rises-over-5\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Roughly Flat; GSK Rises Over 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> UK stocks are moving in a tight band Wednesday morning with investors largely focusing on earnings updates, and digesting the data on the nation&#8217;s manufacturing and services sector activity for the month of January. <\/p>\n<p>With U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariff threats against several major trading partners raising fears of a prolonged trade war, the outlook for global economic growth remains somewhat uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 3.30 points or 0.05% at 9,574.07 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>DCC, Croda International, Spirax Group, Diageo, Convatec Group, Whitbread, Halma, EasyJet, Coca-Cola HBC, Diploma, Scottish Mortgage, Prudential, Kingfisher and Airtel Africa are down 1 to 3.2%.<\/p>\n<p>GSK is climbing nearly 5.5%. The pharmaceutical giant reported robust 2024 performance and lifted its long-term sales outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Fresnillo is up almost 4%. BT Group, Entain, Marks &amp; Spencer, Endeavour Mining, Auto Trader Group and Tesco are gaining 1 to 1.5%.<\/p>\n<p>On the economic front, the S&amp;P Global UK Composite PMI rose to 50.6 in January of 2025 from 50.4 in the previous month, recovering from a 14-month low. <\/p>\n<p>The services sector PMI reading came in at 50.8 for January, after a 51.1 score a month earlier, while the manufacturing PMI came in at 48.3 vs 47.0. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/p>\n<\/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 Roughly Flat; GSK Rises Over 5%<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-02-05 11:22:23<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK stocks are moving in a tight band Wednesday morning with investors largely focusing on earnings updates, and digesting the data on the nation&#8217;s manufacturing and services sector activity for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55854,"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-55853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853","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=55853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/55854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}