{"id":8896,"date":"2021-04-16T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T09:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/16\/ftse-100-rises-on-china-data\/"},"modified":"2021-04-16T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T09:35:31","slug":"ftse-100-rises-on-china-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/16\/ftse-100-rises-on-china-data\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Rises On China Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks advanced on Friday after new data showed China&#8217;s <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span> expanded at its fastest pace on record in the first quarter, adding to investor optimism over economic recovery. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 rose 38 points, or half a percent, to 7,022, climbing above the 7,000-mark for the first time since the pandemic pummeled financial <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> last year.<\/p>\n<p>Miners Anglo American, Rio Tinto and Antofagasta rose 1-2 percent while oil &amp; gas firm BP Plc gained 0.8 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Online supermarket Ocado Group advanced 1.5 percent. The company announced that it has commercially partnered with Oxford -based autonomous vehicle software company Oxbotica Ltd to develop a range of vehicles that will be integrated into the Ocado smart platform.<\/p>\n<p>Essentra also gained 1.5 percent after reporting first quarter trading in line with expectations. <\/p>\n<p>Ashmore Group was little changed after its assets under management declined 3 percent in the quarter ended 31 March 2021 from the previous quarter. <\/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 Rises On China Data<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-04-16 09:35:31<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks advanced on Friday after new data showed China&#8217;s economy expanded at its fastest pace on record in the first quarter, adding to investor optimism over economic recovery. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8896","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\/8896","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=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/8897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}