{"id":62814,"date":"2025-08-08T10:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/08\/uk-market-roughly-flat-mining-stocks-move-higher\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:58:20","slug":"uk-market-roughly-flat-mining-stocks-move-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/08\/uk-market-roughly-flat-mining-stocks-move-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Market Roughly Flat; Mining Stocks Move Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Amid a lack of economic and earnings data, U.K. stocks are moving in a tight range in somewhat lackluster trade on Friday. Investors are assessing the potential impact of the Trump administration&#8217;s reciprocal tariffs on global economic growth. Optimism about a rate cut by the Fed next month is aiding sentiment a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100, moving between 9,083.95 and 9,126.09, was roughly flat at 9,102.05 a little while ago, netting a small gain of 1.28 points or 0.01%.<\/p>\n<p>Fresnillo is gaining about 3.5%. Glencore is up 2.75%. JD Sports Fashion, Berkeley Group Holdings, Melrose Industries, Vodafone Group, Hiscox and Rentokil Initial are up 1.5 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>GSK is gaining about 1.3% on news it will receive $370 million as part of a U.S. patent settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Rio Tinto, Land Securities, Taylor Wimpey, Barratt Redrow, British American Tobacco and Barclays are also up with notable gains.<\/p>\n<p>Entain is down 2.65% and Intercontinental Hotels Group is lower by about 2.5%. WPP, Pearson, Compass Group, Croda International, Relx, Admiral Group and Experian are down 1.4 to 2.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Beazley, Prudential, Halma, The Sage Group, RightMove, Schroders and IAG are also down in negative territory. <\/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 \/>UK Market Roughly Flat; Mining Stocks Move Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-08-08 10:58:20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a lack of economic and earnings data, U.K. stocks are moving in a tight range in somewhat lackluster trade on Friday. Investors are assessing the potential impact of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62815,"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-62814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62814","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=62814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/62815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}