{"id":62021,"date":"2025-07-17T11:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/17\/ftse-modestly-higher-as-investors-focus-on-earnings\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:57:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:57:01","slug":"ftse-modestly-higher-as-investors-focus-on-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/17\/ftse-modestly-higher-as-investors-focus-on-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE Modestly Higher As Investors Focus On Earnings"},"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 Thursday with investors switching their focus to earnings updates. A firm trend across Europe amid optimism over a potential trade deal between the EU and US is also contributing to the positive mood in the British market.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was at 8,960.62 a little while ago, gaining 34.07 points or 0.38%.<\/p>\n<p>Diploma, up 7.1%, is the biggest gainer in the FTSE 100 index. Ashtead Group, Lloyds Banking Group, Whitbread, IMI, Tayloer Wimpey, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Smiths Group, Pershing Square Holdings, Airtel Africa, Rentokil Initial and Smith &amp; Nephew are gaining 1.5 to 2.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Online supermarket and <span class=\"landLinks\">technology<\/span> group Ocado is up more than 12% after reporting better-than-expected first-half results. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of low-cost airline EasyJet Plc are down 6.5% after strike action by French air traffic controllers and higher fuel prices dented its quarterly performance.<\/p>\n<p>Endeavour Mining is down nearly 2%, while Anglo American Plc is down by about 1.3%. Antofagasta, IAG, Mondi, Reckitt Benckiser and St. James&#8217;s Place are lower by 0.6 to 1%.<\/p>\n<p>In economic releases, data showed the U.K. unemployment rate rose unexpectedly to 4.7% in the three months to May, while it was forecast to remain unchanged at 4.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Pay growth slipped from 5.3% to 5%, spurring hopes the Bank of England will cut interest rates next month. <\/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 Modestly Higher As Investors Focus On Earnings<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-07-17 11:57:01<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are up in positive territory on Thursday with investors switching their focus to earnings updates. A firm trend across Europe amid optimism over a potential trade deal between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62022,"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-62021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62021","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=62021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/62022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}