{"id":8244,"date":"2021-03-22T09:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T09:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/22\/ftse-100-slides-on-covid-concerns\/"},"modified":"2021-03-22T09:24:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T09:24:45","slug":"ftse-100-slides-on-covid-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/03\/22\/ftse-100-slides-on-covid-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Slides On Covid Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks edged lower on Monday after reports suggested that the European Union could begin restricting exports of Covid-19 vaccines to the U.K. to try and speed up its own faltering vaccine campaign. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the government will ask MPs to extend <span class=\"landLinks\">coronavirus<\/span> restrictions for a further six months so that furlough can continue to apply even after all measures have possibly been scrapped, Health Minister Helen Whately told BBC Breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 dropped 27 points, or 0.4 percent, to 6,681 after losing 1.1 percent on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Energy stocks fell as oil prices retreated on concerns over fears of slowing demand. BP Plc fell about 1 percent and Royal Dutch Shell lost 1.6 percen.<\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca climbed 1.2 percent after its Covid-19 vaccine was found effective in a U.S. trial.<\/p>\n<p>Home improvement retailer Kingfisher surged almost 5 percent after it reported a 44 percent jump in annual profit. <\/p>\n<p>Gold mining company Centamin dropped 1 percent, reversing early gains after posting a significantly higher profit for 2020 and reaffirming its 2021 guidance. <\/p>\n<\/p>\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 Slides On Covid Concerns<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-03-22 09:24:45<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks edged lower on Monday after reports suggested that the European Union could begin restricting exports of Covid-19 vaccines to the U.K. to try and speed up its own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8244","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\/8244","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=8244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}