{"id":8824,"date":"2021-04-14T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T09:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/14\/ftse-100-edges-higher-ahead-of-us-earnings\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T09:22:04","slug":"ftse-100-edges-higher-ahead-of-us-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/14\/ftse-100-edges-higher-ahead-of-us-earnings\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Edges Higher Ahead Of US Earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks edged higher on Wednesday as investors shrugged off concerns over Covid-19 vaccines and looked toward the start of the U.S. earnings season for directional cues. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 edged up 14 points, or 0.2 percent, to 6,904 after ending flat with a positive bias on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Commodity trader Glencore advanced 2.8 percent after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock to &#8220;buy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Drug maker AstraZeneca gained 0.8 percent after China&#8217;s <span class=\"landLinks\">health<\/span> regulator approved Tagrisso, its lung cancer treatment, as adjuvant treatment for patients with early-stage lung cancer.<\/p>\n<p>easyJet shares jumped 3 percent. The low-cost airline expressed optimism that European travel <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> will revive this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Tesco lost about 3 percent after the grocery chain reported a fall in full-year pretax profit. <\/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 Edges Higher Ahead Of US Earnings<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-04-14 09:22:04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks edged higher on Wednesday as investors shrugged off concerns over Covid-19 vaccines and looked toward the start of the U.S. earnings season for directional cues. The benchmark FTSE&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8824","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\/8824","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=8824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}