{"id":57271,"date":"2025-03-12T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/12\/ftse-100-moderately-higher-as-stocks-recover-from-recent-losses\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T10:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:18:13","slug":"ftse-100-moderately-higher-as-stocks-recover-from-recent-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/12\/ftse-100-moderately-higher-as-stocks-recover-from-recent-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Moderately Higher As Stocks Recover From Recent Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are up after six successive days of declines, with shares from the mining sector contributing significantly to the gains Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Optimism over a ceasefire in Ukraine is aiding sentiment. Meanwhile, the U.S. has decided to resume intelligence sharing and military aid to Ukraine after Kyiv said it would support the Trump administration&#8217;s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv has reportedly agreed to a US-proposal for an &#8220;immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire&#8221; if Russia agrees to the terms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A while ago, Ukraine has agreed to the ceasefire. Now we go to Russia and hopefully President Putin will agree to it also,&#8221; U.S. President Trump said soon after the Jeddah announcement.<\/p>\n<p>On the tariff front, the UK government has decided not to retaliate against tariffs imposed by the U.S. on metals, and has reaffirmed its commitment to US trade talks.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 44.56 points or 0.52% at 8,540.55 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Melrose Industries is up with a strong gain of 7.2%. Fresnillo is gaining 3.6%, while Entain, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Informa, Anglo American Plc, 3i Group and Barclays Group are up 2 to 3%.<\/p>\n<p>Intermediate Capital, Standard Chartered, Antofagasta, AstraZeneca, Airtel Africa, Aviva, Weir Group, Beazley, Halma, Diploma, Spirax Sarco, Smiths, Scottish Mortgage, Natwest Group, Coca-Cola, Endeavour Mining and Lloyds Banking are up 1 to 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Persimmon, IAG, Associated British Foods, JD Sports Fashion, Auto Trader Group, Hiscox and BT Group are down 2 to 4%.<\/p>\n<p>Sainsbury (J), Smith &amp; Nephew, Next, Severn Trent, Berkeley Group Holdings, Frasers Group, LondonMetric Property, Marks &amp; Spencer, Barratt Redrow and BAE Systems are down 1 to 1.7%. <\/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 Moderately Higher As Stocks Recover From Recent Losses<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-03-12 10:18:13<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are up after six successive days of declines, with shares from the mining sector contributing significantly to the gains Wednesday morning. Optimism over a ceasefire in Ukraine is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57271","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=57271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/57272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}