{"id":65377,"date":"2025-10-15T12:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/15\/ftse-100-drifts-lower\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:04:32","slug":"ftse-100-drifts-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/15\/ftse-100-drifts-lower\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Drifts Lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The UK stock market is down in negative territory on Wednesday, unlike its peers Germany and France, which have moved higher thanks to a good show by stocks from the luxury sector after French major LVMH reported better-than-expected sales in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 40.02 points or 0.42% at 9,412.75 about an hour past noon.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the company reaffirming its full-year guidance, Entain shares are down 5.4% due largely to profit taking after previous session&#8217;s sharp upmove.<\/p>\n<p>Imperial Brands, ICG, AstraZeneca, Babcock International, Unilever, Relx, GSK, DCC, British American Tobacco, Metlen Energy &amp; Metals, Easyjet and BAE Systems are down 1.4 to 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Burberry Group is gaining more than 5%, buoyed by LVMH&#8217;s strong quarterly earnings. Land Securities is gaining about 3%. Next is up 2.8%, Ashtead Group is climbing up 2.5%, and Endeavour Mining is up 2.3%.<\/p>\n<p>WPP, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Pershing Square Holdings, IAG, Lloyds Banking Group and Kingfisher are up 1 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of recruiter PageGroup are up nearly 7%, lifted by a resilient third-quarter performance. <\/p>\n<p>Property developer British Land is up 5% after the company upgraded its forecasts for full-year earnings per share growth, following a growth in half-year profit and in portfolio and rental values. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Forex 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 \/>FTSE 100 Drifts Lower<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-15 12:04:32<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK stock market is down in negative territory on Wednesday, unlike its peers Germany and France, which have moved higher thanks to a good show by stocks from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65377","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\/65377","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=65377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/65378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}