{"id":58157,"date":"2025-04-02T10:36:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/02\/ftse-100-down-0-7-in-cautious-trade-ahead-of-trumps-tariff-announcement\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:36:45","slug":"ftse-100-down-0-7-in-cautious-trade-ahead-of-trumps-tariff-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/04\/02\/ftse-100-down-0-7-in-cautious-trade-ahead-of-trumps-tariff-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Down 0.7% In Cautious Trade Ahead Of Trump&#8217;s Tariff Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are down in negative territory on Wednesday in cautious trade ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s announcement of &#8220;reciprocal tariffs&#8221; later today.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmaceuticals, mining and realty stocks are among the notable losers.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 63.19 points or 0.73% at 8,571.61 a little while ago, off a low of 8,511.11 touched earlier in the session.<\/p>\n<p>Rolls-Royce Holdings, GSK, Melrose Industries and Persimmon are down 3 to 3.5%.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca, Taylor Wimpey, Beazley, Convatec Group, Fresnillo, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, St. James&#8217;s Place, Intertek Group and Babcock International are declining 2 to 3%.<\/p>\n<p>Barratt Redrow, M&amp;G, Smiths Group, Croda International, Schroders, BAE Systems, Segro, Weir Group and IMI are among the other prominent losers.<\/p>\n<p>WPP is gaining about 1.5%. Diageo, Bunzl, BP, Easyjet and IAG are up with modest gains.<\/p>\n<p>Convenience goods giant Greencore Group Plc has reached an agreement with its rival Bakkavor over a \u00a31.2 billion takeover. The deal would help create a convenience foods giant with combined turnover of about \u00a34 billion. Bakkavor Group shares are up nearly 7%, while Greencore Group is down marginally. <\/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 Down 0.7% In Cautious Trade Ahead Of Trump&#8217;s Tariff Announcement<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-04-02 10:36:45<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are down in negative territory on Wednesday in cautious trade ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump&#8217;s announcement of &#8220;reciprocal tariffs&#8221; later today. Pharmaceuticals, mining and realty stocks are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58157","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\/58157","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=58157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/58158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}