{"id":7996,"date":"2021-03-11T08:19:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T08:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/11\/ftse-100-edges-higher-in-cautious-trade\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T08:19:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T08:19:42","slug":"ftse-100-edges-higher-in-cautious-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/11\/ftse-100-edges-higher-in-cautious-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Edges Higher In Cautious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks edged up slightly on Thursday, with commodity-related shares surging after the U.S. Congress approved one of the largest economic stimulus measures in history.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark $1.9 trillion <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> relief package was passed by the House of Representatives, bringing the total spent on Covid relief to $5.5 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 edged up 9 points, or 0.1 percent, to 6,734 after closing marginally lower on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Miners Anglo American, Antofagasta and Glencore rose 2-3 percent, while oil &amp; gas company BP Plc gained 0.7 percent and Royal Dutch Shell added half a percent. <\/p>\n<p>Online trading platform IG Group Holdings soared 4.5 percent after reporting a significant rise in third-quarter revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Supermarket group Morrisons was marginally lower after its annual profit halved.<\/p>\n<p>Engine maker Rolls-Royce Holdings rose over 1 percent despite widening its 2020 pretax loss. <\/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 Edges Higher In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-03-11 08:19:42<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks edged up slightly on Thursday, with commodity-related shares surging after the U.S. Congress approved one of the largest economic stimulus measures in history. The landmark $1.9 trillion coronavirus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-euro-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","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=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/7997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}