{"id":67193,"date":"2025-12-02T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/02\/ftse-edges-higher-as-bank-stocks-rise\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:28:08","slug":"ftse-edges-higher-as-bank-stocks-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/02\/ftse-edges-higher-as-bank-stocks-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE Edges Higher As Bank Stocks Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stock market&#8217;s benchmark FTSE 100 moved modestly higher on Tuesday on selective buying as investors assessed the prospects of more monetary easing by major central banks, and digested the nation&#8217;s latest economic data. Bank stocks moved higher on strong buying support.<\/p>\n<p>The FTSE 100, which advanced to 9,745.31, was up 25.93 points or 0.27% at 9,728.46 nearly half an hour past noon.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays and Standard Chartered gained 1.4 to 1.7%. Natwest Group and HSBC Holdings were also notably higher.<\/p>\n<p>Land Securities climbed about 2.3%. Metlen Energy &amp; Metals, Segro, Entain, Persimmon, Polar Capital Technology Trust, Tesco, BT Group, Marks &amp; Spencer, Prudential, National Grid, LondonMetric Property, SSE, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Vodafone Group and Intercontinental Hotels moved up 1 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Berkeley Group Holdings lost nearly 2%. Endeavour Mining, Auto Trader Group, Rightmove, Barratt Redrow,The Sage Group, Experian and BAE Systems were down 0.8 to 1.4%.<\/p>\n<p>In economic news, U.K. house prices logged a faster-than-expected growth in November despite budget uncertainty, data from the Nationwide Building Society showed.<\/p>\n<p>House prices grew 1.8% on a yearly basis in November, slower than the 2.4% increase seen in October. Nonetheless, the annual growth was faster than the forecast of 1.4%. <\/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 Edges Higher As Bank Stocks Rise<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-12-02 12:28:08<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stock market&#8217;s benchmark FTSE 100 moved modestly higher on Tuesday on selective buying as investors assessed the prospects of more monetary easing by major central banks, and digested the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67194,"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-67193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67193","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=67193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}