{"id":59685,"date":"2025-05-14T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/14\/ftse-100-flat-as-stocks-move-in-tight-range\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T10:38:54","slug":"ftse-100-flat-as-stocks-move-in-tight-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/14\/ftse-100-flat-as-stocks-move-in-tight-range\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Flat As Stocks Move In Tight Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are mostly subdued in lackluster trade on Wednesday as investors react to a mixed batch of earnings announcements, and await more economic data from the U.S., and clarity about Trump administration&#8217;s stance on tariffs with regard to European countries.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100, moving in a tight band between 8,566.47 and 8,615.45, was up 1.78 points or 0.02% at 8,604.70 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial Brands is down nearly 7%. The company announced that its operating profit dropped 2.5% from last year to 1.46 billion pounds, and adjusted operating profit fell 1% to 1.65 billion pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Spirax Group is down more than 6%. Croda International, Melrose Industries, Taylor Wimpey, Ashtead Group, IAG, Standard Chartered, Anglo American Plc., EasyJet, HSBC Holdings, Barratt Redrow, Persimmon and Intermediate Capital Group are down 1 to 3%.<\/p>\n<p>Burberry Group shares are soaring nearly 15%. The company unveiled a series of organizational changes as part of its ongoing efforts to revive the struggling luxury brand.<\/p>\n<p>The group posted a fiscal 2025 loss before tax of 66 million pounds compared to profit of 383 million pounds, last year. Loss per share was 20.9 pence compared to profit of 73.9 pence. <\/p>\n<p>Marks &amp; Spencer, Entain, Mondi, Airtel Africa, Kingfisher, BAE Systems, GSK, Relx and Next are gaining 1.5 to 4%. <\/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 100 Flat As Stocks Move In Tight Range<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-05-14 10:38:54<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are mostly subdued in lackluster trade on Wednesday as investors react to a mixed batch of earnings announcements, and await more economic data from the U.S., and clarity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59685","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=59685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}