{"id":60284,"date":"2025-05-30T11:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/30\/ftse-100-rises-0-7\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:17:38","slug":"ftse-100-rises-0-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/05\/30\/ftse-100-rises-0-7\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Rises 0.7%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> UK stocks are up in positive territory a little past noon on Friday, remaining firm after a steady start. Despite concerns about inflation and uncertainty about tariffs, investors are picking up stocks amid cautious optimism about growth.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 60.44 points or 0.7% at 8,776.89 a few minutes past noon.<\/p>\n<p>M&amp;G, the top gainer in the FTSE 100 index, is up 5.7%. GSK is up by about 2.3% and BT Group is rising 2%. Unite Group, Severn Trent, SSE, Tesco, Whitbread, Hiscox, Weir Group and United Utilities are gaining 1.5 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Reckitt Benckiser, Beazley, IMI, St. James&#8217;s Place, Intertek Group, Schroders, Tayler Wimpey, Associated British Foods and Babcock International are also notably higher.<\/p>\n<p>IAG, Compass Group, Auto Trader Group, Scottish Mortgage, Howden Joinery and Endeavour Mining are down 0.5 to 1.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders Limited (SMMT) showed UK car production fell 15.8% year-on-year in April 2025 to 59,203 units, as US tariffs and the timing of Easter disrupted manufacturing. This marks the lowest April output since 1952. <\/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 Rises 0.7%<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-05-30 11:17:38<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK stocks are up in positive territory a little past noon on Friday, remaining firm after a steady start. Despite concerns about inflation and uncertainty about tariffs, investors are picking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60284","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=60284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/60285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}