{"id":64846,"date":"2025-10-01T12:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/01\/ftse-100-notably-higher-pharma-stocks-among-top-gainers\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T12:02:33","slug":"ftse-100-notably-higher-pharma-stocks-among-top-gainers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/01\/ftse-100-notably-higher-pharma-stocks-among-top-gainers\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Notably Higher; Pharma Stocks Among Top Gainers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are up firmly in positive territory about an hour past noon on Wednesday, with pharma stocks figuring prominently in the list of gainers following Pfizer reaching a deal with the U.S. government to lower prescription drug prices in exchange for tariff relief.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 60.06 points or 0.65% at 9,410.49 nearly an hour past noon. <\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca Pharma, Hikma Pharmaceuticals and GSK are up 6.3%, 3.5% and 2.75%, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>JD Sports Fashion is gaining nearly 4%. Intertek Group, Croda International, Burberry Group, Antofagasta, Melrose Industries, Spirax Group, Centrica, Standard Chartered, Shell, Glencore, DCC. Associated British Foods, Schroders, Pearson and 3i Group are up 1 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Babcock International is down 2.7%. Howden Joinery, Tesco, Imperial Brands, Coca-Cola HBC, Experian, Auto Trader Group, Relx, BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Pershing Square Holdings, Persimmon and Rightmove are down 1 to 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>British baker and fast-food chain Greggs is soaring 7% as it reported 6.1% sales growth over the third quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Spirits major Diageo is up 1.5% after pricing \u20ac1 billion of fixed rate bonds under its European Debt Issuance Program.<\/p>\n<p>UK house prices growth accelerated in September amid easing borrowing costs, data from the mortgage lender Nationwide Building Society showed. House prices logged an annual growth of 2.2% in September, slightly faster than the prior month&#8217;s 2.1% rise. The annual increase was forecast to ease to 1.8%. <\/p>\n<p>On a monthly basis, house prices rebounded 0.5% after a 0.1% drop in August. This was also faster than economists&#8217; forecast of 0.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Data showed that house prices climbed 0.4% in the third quarter from the preceding quarter. Compared to the last year, house prices increased 2.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P Global UK Manufacturing PMI dropped to 46.2 in September 2025, a five-month low and well below the 50.0 growth threshold, marking a twelfth straight month of contraction, in line with preliminary estimates, data drom S&amp;P Global showed. <\/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 Notably Higher; Pharma Stocks Among Top Gainers<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-01 12:02:33<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are up firmly in positive territory about an hour past noon on Wednesday, with pharma stocks figuring prominently in the list of gainers following Pfizer reaching a deal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64847,"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-64846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64846","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=64846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/64847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}