{"id":9823,"date":"2021-05-17T09:25:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/17\/ftse-100-dips-as-britain-reopens\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T09:25:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:25:34","slug":"ftse-100-dips-as-britain-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/17\/ftse-100-dips-as-britain-reopens\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Dips As Britain Reopens"},"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 fell on Monday after last week&#8217;s rollercoaster ride. A firmer pound weighed on <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> as Britain took a big step towards reopening its <span class=\"landLinks\">economy<\/span>, lifting a number of social restrictions imposed to combat the COVID-19 outbreak. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 dropped 22 points, or 0.3 percent, to 7,022 after rising 1.2 percent on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Diploma Plc shares surged 8 percent. The seal and cables maker reinstated dividend and upped its annual guidance after a very strong first-half performance.<\/p>\n<p>GSK shares were modestly lower. The drugs giant and France&#8217;s Sanofi have reported &#8220;strong immune responses&#8221; in early tests of their COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Ryanair Holdings gained 0.7 percent. After posting a record annual loss, the discount carrier pointed to a strong recovery in the second half. <\/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 Dips As Britain Reopens<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-05-17 09:25:34<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. stocks fell on Monday after last week&#8217;s rollercoaster ride. A firmer pound weighed on markets as Britain took a big step towards reopening its economy, lifting a number of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9824,"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-9823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","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=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}