{"id":9041,"date":"2021-04-21T09:32:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T09:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/21\/ftse-100-edges-higher-in-cautious-trade-2\/"},"modified":"2021-04-21T09:32:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T09:32:19","slug":"ftse-100-edges-higher-in-cautious-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/21\/ftse-100-edges-higher-in-cautious-trade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Edges Higher In Cautious Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks gained ground on Wednesday after data showed inflation picked up in March on rising prices for clothing and motor fuel. <\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices advanced 0.7 percent year-on-year, faster than the 0.4 percent increase seen in February, data from the Office for National Statistics revealed. <\/p>\n<p>But inflation was slightly below economists&#8217; forecast of 0.8 percent. On a monthly basis, inflation rose to 0.3 percent, as expected, from 0.1 percent a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 edged up 21 points, or 0.3 percent, to 6,881 after falling as much as 2 percent on Tuesday to suffer its most substantial fall in two months. <\/p>\n<p>Pharmaceutical company Hikma rallied 2.4 percent after announcing it has resumed the launch of its generic version of GlaxoSmithKline&#8217;s asthma Advair Diskus in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Bunzl lost 2.4 percent. The distribution and services firm reported a rise in first-quarter revenue and maintained its outlook for the rest of the year. <\/p>\n<p>Kier Group shares slumped 4 percent. The construction company plans to raise 190-240 million pounds by offering new shares in the coming weeks. <\/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 In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-04-21 09:32:19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks gained ground on Wednesday after data showed inflation picked up in March on rising prices for clothing and motor fuel. Consumer prices advanced 0.7 percent year-on-year, faster than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9041","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\/9041","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=9041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}