{"id":9457,"date":"2021-05-05T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/05\/ftse-100-edges-higher-led-by-miners\/"},"modified":"2021-05-05T09:42:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T09:42:02","slug":"ftse-100-edges-higher-led-by-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/05\/ftse-100-edges-higher-led-by-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Edges Higher Led By Miners"},"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 rose on Wednesday as rising commodity prices lifted mining and energy stocks. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, IHS Markit&#8217;s final composite Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index (PMI), seen as a good gauge of economic <span class=\"landLinks\">health<\/span>, climbed to 53.8 last month from March&#8217;s 53.2.<\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 jumped 84 points, or 1.2 percent, to 7,006 after ending 0.7 percent lower on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rio Tinto, BHP Group, Glencore and Anglo American jumped 3-4 percent as copper prices rose past a key psychological level of $10,000 a ton, supported by prospects for higher demand. <\/p>\n<p>BP Plc gained 1.3 percent and Royal Dutch Shell added 0.9 percent as oil extended an overnight rally. <\/p>\n<p>McBride shares plunged 20 percent as the cleaning product supplier McBride downgraded its annual earnings guidance, citing rising input costs and weaker sales. <\/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 Edges Higher Led By Miners<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-05-05 09:42:02<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks rose on Wednesday as rising commodity prices lifted mining and energy stocks. Meanwhile, IHS Markit&#8217;s final composite Purchasing Managers&#8217; Index (PMI), seen as a good gauge of economic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9458,"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-9457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457","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=9457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}