{"id":63453,"date":"2025-08-26T12:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/26\/ftse-100-modestly-lower-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T12:20:29","slug":"ftse-100-modestly-lower-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/26\/ftse-100-modestly-lower-2\/","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> After posting gains in the previous five sessions, the U.K. market is exhibiting weakness on Tuesday, weighed down by losses in financials and retail sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Weakness in other major European <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> amid political concerns in France, and tariff uncertainty, appear to be weighing on sentiment in the UK market as well.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100, which drifted down to 9,244.70 earlier in the session, was down 35.91 points or 0.39% at 9,285.49 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Kingfisher and Associated British Foods are down 3.6% and 3.5%, respectively. Convatec Group, Compass Group, Schroders, Standard Chartered, ICG, Rentokil Initial, Berkeley Group Holdings, Whitbread and DCC are down 2 to 3%.<\/p>\n<p>British American Tobacco is down 2.7% as Chief Financial Officer Soraya Benchikh stepped down with immediate effect after about 15 months in the role.<\/p>\n<p>Weir Group, Coca-Cola HBC, The Sage Group, Prudential, Games Workshop, Relx, Barratt Redrow, Hiscox, Barclays and Experian are among the other major losers.<\/p>\n<p>Bunzl is rising 5.8% as the British distribution firm announced the completion of two new acquisitions in Spain and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Fresnillo is up nearly 2%. Babcock International, Endeavour Mining, BT Group, Tesco, Rolls-Royce Holdings and Shell are gaining 1 to 1.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Halma is up by about 0.7% after it acquired Netherlands-based advanced gyroscopic locating systems provider Brownline in a deal worth around \u00a3129m.<\/p>\n<p>In economic news, U.K. shop price inflation accelerated to the highest since early last year in August due to higher food prices, the British Retail Consortium reported.<\/p>\n<p>Shop price inflation rose to 0.9% in August from 0.7% in July. This was the highest since March last year.<\/p>\n<p>The increase was driven by the annual rise in food inflation to 4.2% from 4% in July. <\/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 \/>2025-08-26 12:20:29<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After posting gains in the previous five sessions, the U.K. market is exhibiting weakness on Tuesday, weighed down by losses in financials and retail sectors. 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