{"id":8659,"date":"2021-04-08T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/08\/ftse-100-gains-on-economic-optimism\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T09:24:21","slug":"ftse-100-gains-on-economic-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/08\/ftse-100-gains-on-economic-optimism\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Gains On Economic Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks edged higher on Thursday after minutes of March FOMC meeting reinforced expectations that interest rates will remain low for some time amid continued uncertainty surrounding the economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 rose 15 points, or 0.2 percent, to 6,900 after climbing 0.9 percent in the previous session. <\/p>\n<p>AstraZeneca shares were up 1.7 percent despite reports that several European countries are considering to restrict the use of the company&#8217;s Covid-19 vaccine in younger people.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson Matthey shares rallied 3.3 percent. The chemicals company said it expects group operating performance for 2020\/21 to be around the top end of market expectations. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of online retailer ASOS fell 2.4 percent. The company has more than tripled first-half profits to a record \u00a3106m and raised full-year expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Mining giant Anglo American added 1.5 percent after saying it plans to demerge its thermal coal operations in South Africa. <\/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 Gains On Economic Optimism<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-04-08 09:24:21<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks edged higher on Thursday after minutes of March FOMC meeting reinforced expectations that interest rates will remain low for some time amid continued uncertainty surrounding the economic outlook&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659","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=8659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}