{"id":65747,"date":"2025-10-24T11:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/24\/ftse-100-retreats-after-positive-start\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:31:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:31:39","slug":"ftse-100-retreats-after-positive-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/10\/24\/ftse-100-retreats-after-positive-start\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Retreats After Positive Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks opened on a positive note Friday morning after data showed an unexpected increase in UK retail sales in September. However, the market turned a bit easy subsequently, due largely to selling in some mining stocks as metal prices dropped from record highs.<\/p>\n<p>The FTSE 100 index, which advanced to 9,601.37 early on in the session, was down 8.52 points or 0.09% at 9,570.05 a few minutes past noon. <\/p>\n<p>London Stock Exchange, which closed sharply higher on Thursday, continues to move higher, gaining about 3.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Natwest Group is up nearly 3%, and Burberry Group is gaining 2.3%. Relx, Tesco, Kingfisher, Compass Group, Next, Scottish Mortgage, Diploma, Intercontinental Hotels Group and Pearson are up 1 to 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Fresnillo is down nearly 3%. Metlen Energy &amp; Metals is declining by 2.6%. LondonMetric Property, Airtel Africa, Endeavour Mining, BAE Systems, SSE, WPP, GSK, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Barclays, Glencore, Whitbread, Ashtead Group and Coca-Cola EuroPacific Partners are down 1 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Office for National Statistics showed UK retail sales advanced 0.5% in September from the previous month, confounding expectations for a decline of 0.2%. Sales had climbed 0.6% in August. The increase marked the fourth consecutive rise and took the total volume to the highest level since July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>On a yearly basis, retail sales volume grew at a faster pace of 1.5% after rising 0.7% in August. The rate was also better than forecast of 0.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, survey results from market research group GfK showed that the British consumer sentiment improved moderately in October.<\/p>\n<p>The consumer confidence index rose to -17 from -19 in September. Four measures were up and one was down from the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Data from S&amp;P Global showed the S&amp;P Global UK Composite PMI rose to 51.1 in October from the four-month low of 50.1 in the previous month, above the consensus of a 50.6. Activity in the services sector rose services sector grew with the index climbing to 51.1 in the month from 50.8 in September. The Manufacturing PMI rose to 49.6 from 46.2. <\/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 Retreats After Positive Start<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-10-24 11:31:39<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks opened on a positive note Friday morning after data showed an unexpected increase in UK retail sales in September. 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