{"id":64897,"date":"2025-10-02T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/02\/ftse-roughly-flat-in-cautious-trade-experian-plunges-sharply\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T12:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T12:02:39","slug":"ftse-roughly-flat-in-cautious-trade-experian-plunges-sharply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/02\/ftse-roughly-flat-in-cautious-trade-experian-plunges-sharply\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE Roughly Flat In Cautious Trade; Experian Plunges Sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The U.K. market is subdued on Thursday, underperforming other major <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> in Europe, with investors focusing on corporate news and largely making stock specific moves.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 5.01 points at 9,451.44 a little while ago. <\/p>\n<p>Tesco is up 3% after raising its full-year profit forecast.<\/p>\n<p>3i Group is gaining 3.7%. Pershing Square Holdings is rising 2.1%, Croda International is up 1.8% and ICG is up 1.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Polar Capital Technology Trust, Lloyds Banking Group, Babcock International, Weir Group, Natwest Group, Rentokil Initial, Anglo American Plc, Marks &amp; Spencer, IAG, Glencore, Metlen Energy &amp; Metals, BAE Systems, LSE and Antofagasta are up 1 to 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Experian is plunging 6.5% after US analytics software firm Fair Isaac announced a new program that could reduce US lenders&#8217; reliance on credit agencies.  Analysts at Jefferies warned the move could cut credit bureaus&#8217; ability to profit from reselling scores, and cause 10-15% dent in earnings.<\/p>\n<p>BT Group is down 2.5% and SSE is declining by about 2.1%. British American Tobacco, Centrica, Ashtead Group, United Utilities, WPP, Entain and GSK are down 1 to 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>National Grid is down nearly 1% after reporting first-half fiscal 2026 trading in line with expectations. <\/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 Roughly Flat In Cautious Trade; Experian Plunges Sharply<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-02 12:02:39<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. market is subdued on Thursday, underperforming other major markets in Europe, with investors focusing on corporate news and largely making stock specific moves. The benchmark FTSE 100 was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64898,"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-64897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64897","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=64897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/64898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}