{"id":59638,"date":"2025-05-13T11:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/13\/ftse-100-modestly-higher-in-cautious-trade-4\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T11:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T11:27:04","slug":"ftse-100-modestly-higher-in-cautious-trade-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/13\/ftse-100-modestly-higher-in-cautious-trade-4\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Modestly Higher In Cautious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are up in positive territory a little past noon on Tuesday, although gains are just modest as investors make cautious moves, choosing to wait for more news on the economic as well as trade front.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 17.59 or 0.2% at 8,622.57 about a quarter past noon.<\/p>\n<p>Entain, the top gainer in the FTSE 100 index, is up more than 4.5%, thanks to a rating upgrade by UBS. Kingfisher is gaining nearly 3%, while Anglo American Plc., Rio Tinto, IAG, Persimmon, Sainsbury (J), Ashtead Group, Taylor Wimpey and Next are up 1.5 to 2.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Weir Group, Glencore, Prudential, IMI, Fresnillo, JD Sports Fashion, Berkeley Group Holdings, St. James&#8217;s Place, Games Workshop and WPP are also notably higher.<\/p>\n<p>DCC is down by about 5%. Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Segro, Haleon, Diageo, British American Tobacco and Imperial Brands are down 1 to 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the British Retail Consortium showed U.K. retail sales grew strongly in April largely due to the timing of the Easter and good weather conditions. Total retail sales increased 7% on a yearly basis in April in contrast to the 4% decline in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Data released by the Office for National Statistics showed the U.K. unemployment rate rose to 4.5% in the three months to March, in line with expectations, from 4.4% in the preceding period. <\/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 Modestly Higher In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-05-13 11:27:04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are up in positive territory a little past noon on Tuesday, although gains are just modest as investors make cautious moves, choosing to wait for more news on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59638","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=59638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}