{"id":61268,"date":"2025-06-26T12:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/26\/ftse-100-rises-0-4-3i-group-climbs-nearly-5\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T12:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:08:56","slug":"ftse-100-rises-0-4-3i-group-climbs-nearly-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/26\/ftse-100-rises-0-4-3i-group-climbs-nearly-5\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Rises 0.4%; 3i Group Climbs Nearly 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are modestly higher in early afternoon trades on Thursday amid easing tensions about the conflict between Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Positive reaction to NATO&#8217;s decision to increase its defense spending target from 2% to 5% of GDP over the next ten years is contributing as well to market&#8217;s positive move.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 34.00 points or 0.39% at 8,752.75 about an hour past noon.<\/p>\n<p>Anglo American Plc shares are gaining more than 8%. 3i Group is up nearly 5%. The investment manager said that its majority-owned <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span>, Action, continued to perform &#8220;strongly&#8221;, with like-for-like sales growth of 6.9% in the year to date.<\/p>\n<p>Glencore and Antofagasta are up 4.5% and 4.4%, respectively. St. James&#8217;s Place, JD Sports Fashion, Fresnillo, DCC, Entain, Rio Tinto, BAE Systems, Mondi and Spirax Group are advancing 2 to 3.5%.<\/p>\n<p>British American Tobacco, Experian, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Melrose Industries, Admiral Group, Persimmon, Unilever, Centrica, Reckitt Benckiser and Haleon are up with sharp to moderate losses. <\/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 0.4%; 3i Group Climbs Nearly 5%<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-06-26 12:08:56<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are modestly higher in early afternoon trades on Thursday amid easing tensions about the conflict between Israel and Iran. Positive reaction to NATO&#8217;s decision to increase its defense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61269,"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-61268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61268","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=61268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/61269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}