{"id":62153,"date":"2025-07-21T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/21\/ftse-100-subdued-as-investors-look-for-direction-mining-stocks-rise\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:57:11","slug":"ftse-100-subdued-as-investors-look-for-direction-mining-stocks-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/07\/21\/ftse-100-subdued-as-investors-look-for-direction-mining-stocks-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Subdued As Investors Look For Direction; Mining Stocks Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are mostly moving in a tight range on Monday as investors await progress in trade negotiations between the U.S. and the European Union, for clues about tariffs<\/p>\n<p>According to reports EU member states are pressing the European Commission to prepare countermeasures, including tariffs on U.S. goods, restrictions on digital services, and limits on public procurement access.<\/p>\n<p>Mining stocks are finding some support thanks to higher iron ore prices.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100, moving between 8,982.03 and 9,007.79, was down 9.81 points or 0.11% at 8,982.31 a few minutes before noon. <\/p>\n<p>Anglo American Plc and Glencore are up 3.3% and 3.2%, respectively. Antofagasta is rising 2.7% and Rio Tinto is up by about 2.5%. Fresnillo is advancing 0.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Sainsbury (J), Tesco, Entain, SSE, Marks &amp; Spencer and Rentokil Initial are gaining 1 to 1.8%. Londonmetric Property, Mondi, Centrica, Smiths Group, Land Securities, Barrat Redrow, Schroders, Legal &amp; General and Games Workshop are up 0.7 to 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Oil &amp; gas giant BP Plc is up by about 0.3% after naming Albert Manifold as its new chairman, succeeding Helge Lund.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of precision engineering group Hunting Plc. are up more than 3% after the company said it has secured a $31 million order for Black Sea gas project. <\/p>\n<p>BAE Systems is down 1.6%. Diageo, Standard Chartered, WPP, Airtel Africa, Barclays, AstraZeneca, Haleon, Auto Trader Group and Relx are down 0.6 to 1.2%. <\/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 Subdued As Investors Look For Direction; Mining Stocks Rise<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-07-21 10:57:11<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are mostly moving in a tight range on Monday as investors await progress in trade negotiations between the U.S. and the European Union, for clues about tariffs According&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62154,"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-62153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62153","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=62153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/62154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}