{"id":67280,"date":"2025-12-04T11:48:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/04\/ftse-100-up-marginally-4\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:48:49","slug":"ftse-100-up-marginally-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/04\/ftse-100-up-marginally-4\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Up Marginally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> After a positive start and a subsequent slip, UK market&#8217;s benchmark FTSE 100 edged higher in late morning trades on Thursday with select frontline stocks moving up on fairly strong buying support.<\/p>\n<p>The FTSE 100, which dropped to 9,726.00 in early trades, was up 16.98 points or 0.17% at 9,709.05 about a quarter before noon.<\/p>\n<p>Burberry Group climbed nearly 4%. Ashtead Group advanced 3.2%, Spirax Group gained 2.75% and Whitbread moved up 2.1%.<\/p>\n<p>Mondi, Land Securities, WPP, Berkeley Group Holdings, Halma, Marks &amp; Spencer, 3i Group, Intercontinental Hotels Group, JD Sports Fashion, St. James&#8217;s Place, Metlen Energy &amp; Metals, Pershing Square Holdings and Melrose Industries gained 1.3 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Airtel Africa, SSE, Endeavour Mining, Auto Trader Group, Fresnillo, Entain and LSEG lost 1.2 to 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Future Plc shares soared 11% in early trades, but pared some gains subsequently and was up 6% a little while ago. After a difficult 2025 marked by weaker advertising demand and a slowdown in price comparison searches, the specialist media group forecast &#8220;modest organic revenue growth&#8221; in the year to September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone Group shares were down 0.4% after the company&#8217;s African unit signed a pact to purchase a controlling stake in Kenyan telecommunications operator Safaricom.<\/p>\n<p>In economic news, the S&amp;P Global UK Construction PMI fell to 39.4 in November from 44.1 in October, pointing to the steepest downturn in UK construction output for five-and-a-half years, amid challenging market conditions, data from S&amp;P Global showed. <\/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<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-12-04 11:48:49<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a positive start and a subsequent slip, UK market&#8217;s benchmark FTSE 100 edged higher in late morning trades on Thursday with select frontline stocks moving up on fairly strong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67281,"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-67280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67280","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=67280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}