{"id":68049,"date":"2025-12-24T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/24\/ftse-100-down-marginally-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:02:12","slug":"ftse-100-down-marginally-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/12\/24\/ftse-100-down-marginally-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Down Marginally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K.&#8217;s benchmark equity index FTSE 100 is down slightly Wednesday morning with investors refraining from making significant moves ahead of the upcoming Christmas holidays. The market will close early today.<\/p>\n<p>Trading volumes are quite thin like elsewhere in Europe, as traders are mostly away on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Energy stocks are attracting modest support thanks to firm oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>The FTSE 100, moving between 9,863.55 and 9,892.95, was down 6.33 points or 0.06% at 9,882.89 a few minutes ago.<\/p>\n<p>Schroders is rising 1.7%. Metlen Energy &amp; Metals, Entain, JD Sports Fashion, Barratt Redrow, Pershing Square Holdings, Beazley and Persimmon are gaining 0.6 to 1%.<\/p>\n<p>BP moved higher after the company agreed to sell a 65% stake in Castrol to Stonepeak.<\/p>\n<p>Games Workshop is down by about 1.1%. Rolls-Royce Holdings, IAG, Astrazeneca, Airtel Africa, GSK, Antogagasta and GSK are lower by 0.5 to 1%. <\/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 Down Marginally<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-12-24 11:02:12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K.&#8217;s benchmark equity index FTSE 100 is down slightly Wednesday morning with investors refraining from making significant moves ahead of the upcoming Christmas holidays. The market will close early today&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68050,"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-68049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68049","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=68049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}