{"id":61559,"date":"2025-07-04T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/04\/ftse-100-modestly-lower\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T11:19:28","slug":"ftse-100-modestly-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/04\/ftse-100-modestly-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Modestly Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are down in negative territory a little past noon on Friday amid trade tensions ahead of the U.S. government&#8217;s tariff deadline. <\/p>\n<p>With the July 9 deadline to strike deals with the U.S. just a few days away, U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that his government will send letters to trading partners outlining unilateral tariffs that will take effect on August 1. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 27.72 points or 0.3% at 8,795.36 about a quarter past noon.<\/p>\n<p>Mondia, Intermediate Capital Group, Anglo American Plc., Barratt Redrow, Schroders, Croda International, Berkeley Group Holdings, Babcock International, Antofagasta, EasyJet, WPP, Ashtead Group, Persimmon, Hikma Pharmaceuticals and Glencore are down sharply.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Group is gaining about 3.2%. Fresnillo is up 1.6% and Coca-Cola HBC is advancing nearly 1%. Associated British Foods, BT Group, Antofagasta and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners are up with modest gains.<\/p>\n<p>Huddled Group Plc shares are soaring more than 10% after the Nottingham, England-based investor in e-commerce brands announced that it has signed a new fulfilment and carrier service agreement with THG Ingenuity.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers &amp; Traders showed UK car sales expanded for the second straight month and marked the best June since 2019 with strong growth in battery electric car demand.<\/p>\n<p>New car market grew 6.7% from a year ago to 191,316 units in June. This was the best June since 2019, helping lift first half performance 3.5% above the same period last year, the lobby said.<\/p>\n<p>New petrol registrations fell 4.2% and diesel volumes gained only 0.2%, suggesting that combined share of the market was 51.6%. Total electrified vehicle registrations achieved a 48.5% market share. <\/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 Modestly Lower<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-07-04 11:19:28<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are down in negative territory a little past noon on Friday amid trade tensions ahead of the U.S. government&#8217;s tariff deadline. With the July 9 deadline to strike&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61560,"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-61559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61559","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=61559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/61560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}