{"id":57926,"date":"2025-03-27T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/27\/ftse-100-moderately-lower-in-cautious-trade\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T12:15:11","slug":"ftse-100-moderately-lower-in-cautious-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/27\/ftse-100-moderately-lower-in-cautious-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Moderately Lower In Cautious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The U.K. stock market is down in negative territory on Thursday, mirroring losses across the region, following U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s announcement of 25% tariffs on imported cars. <\/p>\n<p>Trump also posted on his Truth Social Platform that he will impose even steeper tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they collaborate to harm the U.S. <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she &#8220;deeply regrets&#8221; Trump&#8217;s latest tariffs move. &#8220;The EU will continue to seek negotiated solutions, while safeguarding its economic interests,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, British Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who addressed the media in Cardiff following the spring statement, called US-UK trade talks a &#8220;delicate moment&#8221; but stressed that the UK has no plans for retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 56.21 points or 0.65% at 8,633.38 about a quarter before noon.<\/p>\n<p>M&amp;G is plunging more than 6.5%. Schroders is down 5% and Taylor Wimpey is declining 4.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Antofagasta, Melrose Industries, Segro, British American Tobacco, Smith &amp; Nephew, Anglo American Plc. and Informa are down 2 to 4%.<\/p>\n<p>Rightmove, Entain, BT Group, Standard Chartered, Barclays, Babcock International, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Glencore and Tesco are also notably lower.<\/p>\n<p>Fashion retailer Next is rising 6.5% after reporting annual sales and profit growth in line with expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Marks &amp; Spencer is climbing up 2.7%, while Compass Group and Associated British Foods are up 1.3% and 1%, respectively. <\/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 Lower In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-03-27 12:15:11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. stock market is down in negative territory on Thursday, mirroring losses across the region, following U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s announcement of 25% tariffs on imported cars. Trump also&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57927,"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-57926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57926","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=57926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/57927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}