{"id":68497,"date":"2026-01-09T11:48:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/09\/ftse-100-advances-as-energy-mining-stocks-climb-higher\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:48:45","slug":"ftse-100-advances-as-energy-mining-stocks-climb-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/09\/ftse-100-advances-as-energy-mining-stocks-climb-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Advances As Energy, Mining Stocks Climb Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> After showing weakness in the previous two sessions, U.K. stock market&#8217;s benchmark index FTSE 100 climbed higher Friday morning, riding on strong gains in energy and mining sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Investors looked ahead to U.S. non-farm payroll data for clues about the Federal Reserve&#8217;s monetary policy moves.<\/p>\n<p>The FTSE 100 was up 45.96 points or 0.46% at 10,090.65 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Glencore soared nearly 10%. Glencore and Rio Tinto have confirmed they are in preliminary discussions on a possible combination of some or all of their businesses, which could include an all-share merger between them. Rio Tinto slipped 6% before regaining some lost ground, but was still down by as much as 3% a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Antofagasta, Fresnillo and Anglo American Plc surged 3.5%, 3.2% and 2.9%, respectively. Endeavour Mining shed about 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Energy stocks Shell and BP climbed 2.3% and 2.2%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Marks &amp; Spencer moved up 2.7%, Auto Trader Group gained about 2.5%, while Weir Group, Diageo, BAE Systems, Entain, Centrica, Polar Capital Technology Trust, Associated British Foods, Mondi, Unilever, Bunzl and IMI advanced by 1 to 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Sainsbury (J) drifted down more than 5%. The U.K.&#8217;s second-largest supermarket chain reported a fall in sales at its Argos chain over the all-important Christmas quarter.<\/p>\n<p>IAG, Berkeley Group Holdings, Tesco, Aviva, United Utilities, Vodafone Group, British Land and Imperial Brands lost 0.8 to 2%. <\/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 \/>FTSE 100 Advances As Energy, Mining Stocks Climb Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-09 11:48:45<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After showing weakness in the previous two sessions, U.K. stock market&#8217;s benchmark index FTSE 100 climbed higher Friday morning, riding on strong gains in energy and mining sectors. Investors looked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68498,"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-68497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68497","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=68497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}