{"id":9216,"date":"2021-04-27T09:25:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/27\/ftse-100-struggles-for-direction\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T09:25:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:25:55","slug":"ftse-100-struggles-for-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/04\/27\/ftse-100-struggles-for-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Struggles For Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> U.K. stocks struggled for direction on Tuesday and the pound dipped as Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a stream of allegations over his conduct during the Covid-19 pandemic in the fall of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Investors also awaited the outcome of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting starting later today, with analysts expecting no policy change. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 slipped 5 points to 6,958 after rising 0.4 percent in the previous session. <\/p>\n<p>Oil major BP Plc rose 0.8 percent after posting better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter of the year.<\/p>\n<p>HSBC Holdings advanced 1.5 percent. The global banking giant reported a significantly better-than-expected 79 percent rise in first quarter profit on the back of an improving economic outlook. <\/p>\n<p>Serco, a company that provides outsourcing services to governments, added 1.4 percent after securing a \u00a3350mln government jobs contract.<\/p>\n<p>Whitbread, owner of Premier Inn hotels, lost 2.4 percent after it swung to pretax loss for fiscal 2021. <\/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 Struggles For Direction<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-04-27 09:25:55<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks struggled for direction on Tuesday and the pound dipped as Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a stream of allegations over his conduct during the Covid-19 pandemic in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.unsplash.com\/photo-1531412501799-1b4c354ca957?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw=&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2734&q=80","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216","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=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}