{"id":75888,"date":"2026-07-16T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/07\/16\/ftse-100-modestly-lower-in-cautious-trade-7\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:03:25","slug":"ftse-100-modestly-lower-in-cautious-trade-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/07\/16\/ftse-100-modestly-lower-in-cautious-trade-7\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Modestly Lower In Cautious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> The UK market&#8217;s benchmark index FTSE 100, which recovered some ground after an early fall, remained in negative territory at noon on Thursday with investors staying reluctant to pick up stocks amid worries about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The FTSE 100 was down 33.17 points or 0.32% at 10,482.75 a few minutes before noon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">Diploma moved up 5.3%. Weir Group gained 3.7% and Spirax Group climbed 3.1%. IMI, Metlen Energy &amp; Metals, Kingfisher, Smiths Group, Halma and Bunzl gained 1%-2.2%.<\/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 available exclusively to RTT Biotech Investor and Intelligent Investor subscribers. Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Start Free Trial<\/p>\n<p>FREE 7-Day Trial &#8211; No Payment Required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Market Analysis<\/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 Modestly Lower In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-07-16 11:03:25<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK market&#8217;s benchmark index FTSE 100, which recovered some ground after an early fall, remained in negative territory at noon on Thursday with investors staying reluctant to pick up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75889,"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-75888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75888","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=75888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/75889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}