{"id":69690,"date":"2026-02-09T11:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/09\/ftse-100-marginally-miners-move-higher\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:56:51","slug":"ftse-100-marginally-miners-move-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/02\/09\/ftse-100-marginally-miners-move-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Marginally; Miners Move Higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> Mining stocks are turning in a fine performance in the UK stock market on Monday, while shares from other sectors are a bit mixed in somewhat cautious trade as investors look ahead to some crucial U.S. economic data later in the week for clues about the Federal Reserve&#8217;s policy moves.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down 11.77 points or 0.11% at 10,357.98 a few minutes before noon.<\/p>\n<p>Endeavour Mining is gaining 3.3%. Fresnillo and Glencore are up 2.5% over previous closing levels, while Antofagasta is up nearly 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Metlen Energy &amp; Metals is climbing up nearly 4.5%. BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce Holdings, IAG, Babcock International, Melrose Industries, Spirax Group, Mondi, Vodafone Group, Experia, Weir Group, ICG, Croda International, Diageo, Hiscox and Hikma Pharmaceuticals are up 1%-2%.<\/p>\n<p>Natwest Group is down nearly 6% after the bank agreed to buy private equity-backed wealth management group Evelyn Partners. Lloyds Banking Group is down 3.7%.<\/p>\n<p>BT Group, British Land, Barratt Redrow, Marks &amp; Spencer, British American Tobacco, Compass Group, Associated British Foods, Bunzl and Reckitt Benckiser are down 1%-1.7%.<\/p>\n<p>In economic news, UK recruiters reported a softer drop in permanent job placements in January and vacancies continued to fall at a slower pace, monthly data from S&amp;P Global showed.<\/p>\n<p>There was another decline in permanent job placements in January amid reports of weak market conditions and employer concerns costs, the KPMG\/REC Report on Jobs said. However, the pace of decrease eased to the weakest in 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, temp billings increased for only the second time since May 2024, though growth was marginal.<\/p>\n<p>The availability of candidates continued to rise largely due to redundancies and fewer job opportunities. Nonetheless, the rate of expansion was the softest in 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Data showed improvement in pay trends for both permanent and temporary staff. Starting salaries grew at the fastest pace in nearly a year-and-a-half and temp wage growth hit the joint-highest since May 2024. <\/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 Marginally; Miners Move Higher<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-02-09 11:56:51<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mining stocks are turning in a fine performance in the UK stock market on Monday, while shares from other sectors are a bit mixed in somewhat cautious trade as investors&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69691,"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-69690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69690","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=69690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/69691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}