{"id":58050,"date":"2025-03-31T11:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/31\/ftse-notably-lower-as-trade-war-fears-hurt-sentiment\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T11:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:04:19","slug":"ftse-notably-lower-as-trade-war-fears-hurt-sentiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/03\/31\/ftse-notably-lower-as-trade-war-fears-hurt-sentiment\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE Notably Lower As Trade War Fears Hurt Sentiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are down firmly in negative territory on Monday, tracking weak global <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> amid rising fears of a global trade war after the U.S. President Donald Trump said he will likely impose duties on &#8220;essentially all&#8221; of the U.S.&#8217;s trading partners.<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister had said earlier that he had productive talks with Trump about securing exemptions from tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of mining, financial companies and energy firms are among the major losers. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 is down 113.32 points or 1.31% at 8,545.53 at noon. <\/p>\n<p>IAG is down more than 6%. Glencore, Anglo American Plc, Entain, JD Sports Fashion, Rio Tinto, Schroders and Antofagasta are down 3 to 4%.<\/p>\n<p>EasyJet, Weir Group, Barclays Group, Croda International, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Natwest Group, Standard Chartered, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC Holdings, Informa, AstraZeneca, Melrose Industries, Marks &amp; Spencer, Persimmon and IMI are down 1.5 to 3%.<\/p>\n<p>Associated British Foods is down more than 2% as Primark CEO Paul Marchant resigned amid an investigation into behaviour allegations. <\/p>\n<p>3i Infrastructure is down more than 2% after the investment company released a pre-close trading update for the year ending 31 March 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Pets At Home Group shares are plunging more than 12% after a profit warning. Pennon Group shares are down 2.3%. The British utility said a water contamination outbreak which affected thousands of homes in a Southwest seaside resort pushed up &#8216;reshaping and transformation&#8217; costs to around \u00a336m.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial Brands, British American Tobacco, Severn Trent, Haleon and Unilever are gaining 0.5 to 1.1%. <\/p>\n<\/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 Notably Lower As Trade War Fears Hurt Sentiment<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-03-31 11:04:19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are down firmly in negative territory on Monday, tracking weak global markets amid rising fears of a global trade war after the U.S. President Donald Trump said he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58051,"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-58050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58050","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=58050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/58051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}