{"id":59768,"date":"2025-05-16T10:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/16\/ftse-100-advances-again\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T10:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T10:42:03","slug":"ftse-100-advances-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/16\/ftse-100-advances-again\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Advances Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are moving higher on Friday as investors continue to cheer the recent tariff agreement between U.S. and China, and news about a positive progress in talks between the EU bloc and U.S. for lowering the tariffs from earlier proposed levels.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 62.90 points or 0.73% at 8,696.65 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>St. James&#8217;s Place is rising 4.8%. Pharma stocks AstraZeneca and GSK are gaining 2.1% and 1.8%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>IAG, Intermediate Capital Group, F&amp;C Investment Trust, Experian, British American Tobacco, Convatec Group, Admiral Group, Pershing Square Holdings, Haleon and Rightmove are up 1 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Kingfisher, Marks &amp; Spencer, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Rentokil Initial, Fresnillo, Endeavour Mining, Melrose Industries and Glencore are down 0.5 to 1.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Workspace Group shares are down nearly 8% as the landlord foresees a trading profit headwind of approximately \u00a37 million by March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of video game developer Everplay Group are down nearly 3% despite recovering from early lows. The company announced today that its CEO Steve Bell has stepped down, and Frank Sagnier has stepped in as Interim Executive Chair, effective immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Land Securities Group is down 0.5% despite the real estate investment trust reporting a pre-tax profit of \u00a3393 million, marking a turnaround from the \u00a3341 million loss recorded the previous year. <\/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 Advances Again<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-05-16 10:42:03<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are moving higher on Friday as investors continue to cheer the recent tariff agreement between U.S. and China, and news about a positive progress in talks between the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59769,"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-59768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59768","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=59768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}