{"id":66469,"date":"2025-11-12T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/11\/12\/ftse-100-pares-early-gains-sse-soars-12\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T12:41:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:41:35","slug":"ftse-100-pares-early-gains-sse-soars-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/11\/12\/ftse-100-pares-early-gains-sse-soars-12\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Pares Early Gains; SSE Soars 12%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> After opening marginally higher and moving up a bit subsequently, the U.K. market&#8217;s FTSE 100 slipped into negative territory on Wednesday, with investors looking for direction and largely refraining from making significant moves.<\/p>\n<p>The FTSE 100, which advanced to 9,927.38 earlier in the session, was down 6.55 points or 0.07% at 9,893.05 about half an hour past noon.<\/p>\n<p>SSE is soaring 12% after Jefferies called the company&#8217;s announcement of a \u00a32 billion share placing, a positive mote. The company aims to use the proceeds to help fund its \u00a333 billion investment program through 2030, focused on UK power networks and renewables. <\/p>\n<p>Games Workshop is gaining 5.5%, and Burberry Group is climbing up 4.5%. Metlen Energy &amp; Metals is advancing 2.3%, while IAG, Aviva, Rio Tinto, Croda International, HSBC Holdings, Polar Capital Technology Trust, Howden Joinery Group and Phoenix Group Holdings are up 1 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>3i Group, Tesco, Experian, Auto Trader Group, Compass Group, EasyJet, Next and Berkeley Group Holdings are down 2 to 4%.<\/p>\n<p>Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey is down more than 3% after weekly average for number of private sales per site dropped 11 percent in key autumn period.<\/p>\n<p>BAE Systems, which moved up more than 1% in early trades after backing its annual outlook, gave up its gains subsequently and was down 0.4% a little while ago. <\/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 Pares Early Gains; SSE Soars 12%<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-11-12 12:41:35<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After opening marginally higher and moving up a bit subsequently, the U.K. market&#8217;s FTSE 100 slipped into negative territory on Wednesday, with investors looking for direction and largely refraining from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66470,"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-66469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66469","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=66469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/66470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}