{"id":63602,"date":"2025-08-29T11:07:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/29\/ftse-100-weak-again-looks-headed-for-weekly-loss\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T11:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:07:56","slug":"ftse-100-weak-again-looks-headed-for-weekly-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/08\/29\/ftse-100-weak-again-looks-headed-for-weekly-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Weak Again, Looks Headed For Weekly Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are trading lower on Friday, losing ground for a fourth straight session, weighed down to a large extent by the weakness in the financial sector, amid reports of likely imposition of windfall tax on banks.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the mood remains cautious as investors await key U.S. PCE reading due later in the day, for clues about Federal Reserve&#8217;s possible moves in September.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 28.60 points or 0.31% at 9,188.22 at noon.<\/p>\n<p>Natwest Group is down nearly 5%, Lloyds Banking Group is down 4.6% ad Barclays is lower by about 3.7%. HSBC Holdings is down nearly 1%, while Standard Chartered is marginally down.<\/p>\n<p>JD Sports Fashion is down 2.5%, due largely on profit taking. St. James&#8217;s Place, Kingfisher, Legal &amp; General, IAG, Whitbread, EasyJet, Schroders and Relx are lower by 1 to 2.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Rentokil Initial is gaining 3%. Prudential is up 2.1% and Convatec Group is rising 1.8%. Rolls-Royce Holding, Airtel Africa, British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Bunz, BP and Haleon are up by 1 to 1.5%. <\/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 Weak Again, Looks Headed For Weekly Loss<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-08-29 11:07:56<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are trading lower on Friday, losing ground for a fourth straight session, weighed down to a large extent by the weakness in the financial sector, amid reports of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63603,"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-63602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63602","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=63602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/63603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}