{"id":65288,"date":"2025-10-13T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/13\/ftse-100-up-marginally-miners-rise-on-higher-metal-prices\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:31:58","slug":"ftse-100-up-marginally-miners-rise-on-higher-metal-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/13\/ftse-100-up-marginally-miners-rise-on-higher-metal-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Up Marginally; Miners Rise On Higher Metal Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The U.K. market is up marginally in late morning trades on Monday, having eased a bit after a fairly decent upmove at the start. Mining stocks are faring well.<\/p>\n<p>Metal prices climbed higher amid easing U.S.-China trade tensions after U.S. President Donald Trump struck a more conciliatory tone on trade with China, saying that everything would be &#8220;fine&#8221; and that Washington was not looking to &#8220;hurt&#8221; China.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 6.06 points or 0.06% at 9,433.53 about half an hour before noon. The index had advanced to 9,460.76 earlier in the session.<\/p>\n<p>Miners are in demand as metal prices moved higher. Fresnillo is soaring nearly 8%. Endeavour Mining is gaining nearly 6%, Antofagasta is rising 3.7% and Anglo American Plc is advancing 2.75%. Glencore and Rio Tinto are up 2.1% and 1.3%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Persimmon, M&amp;G, Berkeley Group Holdings, Entain, Barratt Developments, Lloyds Banking Group, Burberry Group, Marks &amp; Spencer, St. James&#8217;s Place, Ashtad Group, Segro and JD Sports Fashion are up 1.3 to 2.7%.<\/p>\n<p>British retailer Pets At Home are up 2.3% after launching the second tranche of its \u00a325 million share buyback program. <\/p>\n<p>Babcock International is declining by about 2.6%. Scottish Mortgage is down nearly 2%, while Vodafone Group, BAE Systems, Smiths &amp; Group, Polar Capital Technology Trust, Reckitt Benckiser, Rolls-Royce Holdings and F&amp;C Investment Trust are down 1 to 1.4%.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca is down nearly 1% after it became the second pharma group to reach an agreement with the Trump administration to lower drug prices in exchange for tariff relief. <\/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 Up Marginally; Miners Rise On Higher Metal Prices<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-13 10:31:58<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. market is up marginally in late morning trades on Monday, having eased a bit after a fairly decent upmove at the start. Mining stocks are faring well. Metal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65289,"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-65288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65288","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=65288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}