{"id":8117,"date":"2021-03-18T09:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/18\/ftse-100-dips-ahead-of-boe-meeting\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T09:21:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:21:20","slug":"ftse-100-dips-ahead-of-boe-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/18\/ftse-100-dips-ahead-of-boe-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Dips Ahead Of BoE Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks edged lower in cautious trade on Thursday as investors awaited the Bank of England&#8217;s policy meeting against an improving backdrop. <\/p>\n<p>The central bank is likely to keep rates on hold, but may emphasize its high bar for tightening monetary policy.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was down about 6 points at 6,756 after losing 0.6 percent the previous day. <\/p>\n<p>Oil and gas firm Premier Oil edged down slightly after it posted a loss for 2020 ahead of Chrysaor merger. <\/p>\n<p>Ocado lost 2.7 percent despite the online grocer reporting a 40 percent surge in sales in the last three months. <\/p>\n<p>Vectura Group jumped 3.4 percent. The pharmaceutical company said it will pay a special dividend of \u00a3115mln during 2021 after receiving a big payout from GlaxoSmithKline over a US patent litigation.<\/p>\n<p>Public transport company National Express declined 2.4 percent after it swung to a pretax loss for 2020 on lower revenue. <\/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 Dips Ahead Of BoE Meeting<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-03-18 09:21:20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks edged lower in cautious trade on Thursday as investors awaited the Bank of England&#8217;s policy meeting against an improving backdrop. The central bank is likely to keep rates&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8118,"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-8117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117","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=8117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}