{"id":73388,"date":"2026-05-15T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/15\/ftse-100-down-1-5-miners-bank-stocks-among-major-losers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:34:32","slug":"ftse-100-down-1-5-miners-bank-stocks-among-major-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/05\/15\/ftse-100-down-1-5-miners-bank-stocks-among-major-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Down 1.5%; Miners, Bank Stocks Among Major Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The UK stock market&#8217;s benchmark index FTSE 100 fell on Friday, sliding after two successive days of gains, as worries about Middle East tensions, and a lack of positive outcome from the U.S.-China summit hurt sentiment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">Investors also followed the developments on the political front where Andy Burnham moved closer to a potential bid for prime minister, with MP Josh Simons saying he would step aside for the Manchester mayor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall-wrapper\">\n<p><i class=\"bi bi-lock-fill\"\/> Subscribe to continue reading the article.<\/p>\n<p>This article is part of our premium content offering.Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe Now<\/p><\/div>\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 Down 1.5%; Miners, Bank Stocks Among Major Losers<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-05-15 11:34:32<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK stock market&#8217;s benchmark index FTSE 100 fell on Friday, sliding after two successive days of gains, as worries about Middle East tensions, and a lack of positive outcome&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73388","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=73388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/73389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}