{"id":68607,"date":"2026-01-13T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/13\/ftse-100-down-marginally-whitbread-rises-5\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:17:25","slug":"ftse-100-down-marginally-whitbread-rises-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/01\/13\/ftse-100-down-marginally-whitbread-rises-5\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Down Marginally; Whitbread Rises 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks are turning in a mixed performance Tuesday morning in cautious trading with investors reacting to some corporate news and awaiting fresh data from the region and elsewhere for directional clues.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100, moving in a tight band between 10,130.35 and 10,150.18, was down 7.25 points or 0.07% at 10,133.45 a little while ago.<\/p>\n<p>Whitbread shares are up 5% as pressure on margins eased after the company said the impact of the UK budget on costs would be lower than previously expected.<\/p>\n<p>Diageo gained nearly 2% on reports the company is reviewing options for its China <span class=\"landLinks\">business<\/span>, including a potential sale.<\/p>\n<p>Mondi is gaining 2.6%, and British Land is up 1.8%. Pershing Square Holdings, Tesco, Informa, Barclays, Prudential, Marks &amp; Spencer, BP, Land Securities Group, Segro and Shell are up 1 to 1.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Games Workshop is declining by nearly 3%. Rentokil Initial is down 1.9%, while Admiral Group, Endeavour Mining and ICG are down 1.6 to 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>BAE Systems is down with a loss of 1.1%. Centrica, Severn Trent, Smith &amp; Nephew, Airtel Africa, GSK, United Utilities, Entain, National Grid and AstraZeneca are also notably lower.<\/p>\n<p>UK retail sales grew at a slower pace in December despite festive season as consumers cut back spending on higher household bills, the British Retail Consortium said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Total retail sales increased 1.2% in December from the previous year compared to an annual growth of 3.2% in the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Food sales rose 3.1% on a yearly basis, while non-food sales decreased 0.3%. In-store non-food sales dropped 0.5% and online non-food sales fell 0.1%.<\/p>\n<p>The online penetration rate increased to 38.6% in December from 38.5% in the last year. <\/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 Down Marginally; Whitbread Rises 5%<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-01-13 10:17:25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks are turning in a mixed performance Tuesday morning in cautious trading with investors reacting to some corporate news and awaiting fresh data from the region and elsewhere for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68608,"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-68607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68607","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=68607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}