{"id":60475,"date":"2025-06-04T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/04\/ftse-100-up-marginally-2\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:49:06","slug":"ftse-100-up-marginally-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/04\/ftse-100-up-marginally-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Up Marginally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are up in positive territory on Wednesday even as investors assess the potential impact of the Trump administration&#8217;s tariffs on steel and aluminum, in addition to digesting some corporate earnings updates and economic data.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 11.95 points or 0.14% at 8,798.97 a little while ago. The index touched, which edged down to a low of 8,778.63, subsequently climbed to 8814.37.<\/p>\n<p>Babcock International is climbing up 4.5%. Melrose Industries, Games Workshop, Spirax Group and Antofagasta are gaining 2.3 to 2.75%.<\/p>\n<p>WH Smith is rising 3.5% following the company maintaining its full-year outlook after reporting continued strong performance in its global travel retail <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span> for the 13-week period ending May 31,2025. <\/p>\n<p>IMI, Glencore, Halma, St. James&#8217;s Place, Diageo, 3i Group, Convatec Group, Informa, RightMove, Entain, Hiscox, EasyJet, Anglo American Plc, Experian and Smiths Group are up 1 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Discount retailer B&amp;M European Value Retail is tanking more than 10% after posting a mixed bag of results for the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Property management firm Hammerson shares are down 5% after an announcement that its Chief Executive Officer, Rita-Rose Gagne, plans to retire in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>On the economic front, the S&amp;P Global UK Composite PMI was revised up to 50.3 in May 2025 from a preliminary estimate of 49.4, exceeding April&#8217;s reading of 48.5.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P Global UK Services PMI was revised slightly higher to 50.9 in May 2025 from a preliminary of 50.2, and above April&#8217;s reading of 49. The latest figure signaled a tepid return to growth following a contraction in April, amid receding concerns about US tariffs. <\/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 Up Marginally<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-06-04 11:49:06<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are up in positive territory on Wednesday even as investors assess the potential impact of the Trump administration&#8217;s tariffs on steel and aluminum, in addition to digesting some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60476,"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-60475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60475","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=60475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/60476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}