{"id":64300,"date":"2025-09-17T08:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/09\/17\/european-shares-inch-up-before-fed-decision-uk-inflation-holds-steady-ahead-of-boe-meeting\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T08:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T08:55:58","slug":"european-shares-inch-up-before-fed-decision-uk-inflation-holds-steady-ahead-of-boe-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/09\/17\/european-shares-inch-up-before-fed-decision-uk-inflation-holds-steady-ahead-of-boe-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Inch Up Before Fed Decision; UK Inflation Holds Steady Ahead Of BoE Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> European stocks edged higher on Wednesday ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve&#8217;s interest-rate decision later in the day. <\/p>\n<p>With a 25-bps rate cut expected, the focus would be on Fed Chair Jerome Powell&#8217;s comments on policy outlook.<\/p>\n<p>In economic releases, the latest U.K. inflation data reinforced expectations that the Bank of England will keep rates unchanged this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Office for National Statistics, the consumer price index rose 3.8 percent on a yearly basis in August, the same rate of increase as seen in July and matching economists&#8217; expectations.<\/p>\n<p>The 3.8 percent inflation was the joint-highest recorded since January 2024, when the rate was 4.0 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The pan European STOXX 600 edged up by 0.2 percent to 551.78 after having fallen by 1.1 percent on Tuesday, pressured by steep losses in the financial sector.  <\/p>\n<p>The German DAX gained half a percent and France&#8217;s CAC 40 inched up 0.1 percent. <\/p>\n<p>The U.K.&#8217;s FTSE 100 was up 0.1 percent as U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in the U.K. for his second state visit. <\/p>\n<p>In corporate news, French catering and facility management group Sodexo rose about 1 percent after renewing a contract with Shell for five years. <\/p>\n<p>German wind turbine maker Nordex rallied 2.7 percent after receiving its first order from Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch postal operator PostNL jumped 3.4 percent after announcing its &#8216;ambitious&#8217; 2028 targets. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Business News<\/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 \/>European Shares Inch Up Before Fed Decision; UK Inflation Holds Steady Ahead Of BoE Meeting<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-09-17 08:55:58<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European stocks edged higher on Wednesday ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve&#8217;s interest-rate decision later in the day. With a 25-bps rate cut expected, the focus would be on Fed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-euro-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64300","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=64300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/64301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}