{"id":61704,"date":"2025-07-09T11:43:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/09\/ftse-100-modestly-higher\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:43:01","slug":"ftse-100-modestly-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/09\/ftse-100-modestly-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Modestly Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The UK market remains firmly placed in positive territory a little past noon on Wednesday, holding gains after a steady start, amid rising optimism about the European Union striking a deal with the U.S. in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 21.89 points or 0.25% at 8,876.07 about half-an-hour past noon.<\/p>\n<p>British American Tobacco is rising 2.7%. Smith &amp; Nephew is gaining 1.8%, while Centrica, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Legal &amp; General, Barclays, Shell, HSBC Holdings, Natwest Group, Intermediate Capital Group, Spirax Group, Imperial Brands and IMI are up 1 to 1.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Energy services firm Hunting Plc is soaring more than 10% after reporting strong half-year results and launching a $40 million share repurchase program.<\/p>\n<p>Galliford Try Holdings shares are up more than 3%. The construction group said it expects to report full year 2025 revenue and adjusted pre-tax profit slightly above the upper end of current market forecasts.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of advertising major WPP Plc are tanking more than 14% after the company trimmed its outlook for first half and fiscal 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Glencore is down by about 2.1%, while Anglo American Plc, EasyJet, Fresnillo, JD Sports Fashion, Antofagasta, Rentokil Initial, Marks &amp; Spencer and B&amp;M European Value Retail are down 1 to 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Close Brothers Group Plc are down more than 4%. The merchant banking group said it plans to scale back its premium finance division in a bid to cut costs and focus on its offerings for businesses. <\/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 Modestly Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-07-09 11:43:01<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK market remains firmly placed in positive territory a little past noon on Wednesday, holding gains after a steady start, amid rising optimism about the European Union striking a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61705,"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-61704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61704","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=61704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/61705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}