{"id":67478,"date":"2025-12-09T11:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/09\/uk-stocks-move-in-tight-range-ftse-down-slightly\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:47:12","slug":"uk-stocks-move-in-tight-range-ftse-down-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/09\/uk-stocks-move-in-tight-range-ftse-down-slightly\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Stocks Move In Tight Range; FTSE Down Slightly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> UK stocks moved in a tight band Tuesday morning with investors making cautious moves while looking ahead to the Federal Reserve&#8217;s monetary policy announcement on Wednesday, and the post meet conference by Fed Chair Jerome Powell.<\/p>\n<p>The Fed is widely expected to lower interest rate by 25 basis points. The accompanying statement is eyed for clues about the central bank&#8217;s possible future moves with regard to rates.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 8.89 points or 0.09% at 9,653.95 about a quarter before noon. <\/p>\n<p>WPP gained 4.7% and The Sage Group climbed 3.2%, while Babcock International, Metlen Energy &amp; Metals, BAE Systems, Entain and Fresnillo gained 2 to 3%.<\/p>\n<p>M&amp;G, Pearson, Sainsbury (J), Airtel Africa, Relx, Vodafone Group, Persimmon, AstraZeneca and Admiral Group also posted solid gains.<\/p>\n<p>British American Tobacco shed about 2.8%. The cigarette maker said it expects 2026 trading to come in at the lower end of its mid-term targets.<\/p>\n<p>JD Sports Fashion drifted down 2.3%. Tesco, Antofagasta, EasyJet, IAG, Ashtead Group, Croda International, The Magnum Ice Cream, Pershing Square Holdings and Glencore lost 1 to 1.6%. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 \/>UK Stocks Move In Tight Range; FTSE Down Slightly<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-12-09 11:47:12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK stocks moved in a tight band Tuesday morning with investors making cautious moves while looking ahead to the Federal Reserve&#8217;s monetary policy announcement on Wednesday, and the post meet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67479,"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-67478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67478","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=67478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/67479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}