{"id":6870,"date":"2021-01-27T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T09:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/01\/27\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T09:56:02","slug":"ftse-100-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/01\/27\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-lackluster-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Little Changed In Lackluster Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks were little changed on Wednesday as climbing <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> cases and movement curbs raised concerns about growth.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic passed 100,000 people as the government battled to speed up vaccination delivery and keep variants of the virus at bay.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, U.K. shop prices decreased 2.2 percent year-on-year in January, after a 1.8 percent drop in the previous month hit by the renewed Covid-19 lockdown measures, data from the British Retail Consortium showed.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was virtually unchanged at 6,654 after closing 0.2 percent higher the previous day. <\/p>\n<p>Precious metals miner Fresnillo slumped nearly 6 percent after forecasting a fall in gold production. <\/p>\n<p>Oil exploration company Tullow Oil lost 2 percent after it warned of lower output in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>3i Infrastructure edged up slightly.  The company said that its portfolio continues to be resilient through the pandemic and is on track to meet its dividend target. <\/p>\n<p>LondonMetric Property advanced 1.4 percent after it acquired two urban logistics warehouses. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/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 Little Changed In Lackluster Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-01-27 09:56:02<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks were little changed on Wednesday as climbing coronavirus cases and movement curbs raised concerns about growth. Britain&#8217;s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic passed 100,000 people as the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","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=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}