{"id":9947,"date":"2021-05-20T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T09:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/20\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-cautious-trade-2\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T09:26:15","slug":"ftse-100-little-changed-in-cautious-trade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2021\/05\/20\/ftse-100-little-changed-in-cautious-trade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Little Changed In Cautious Trade"},"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. <span class=\"landLinks\">markets<\/span> were little changed on Thursday as shares of a number of companies traded ex-dividend. <\/p>\n<p>The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 2 points at 6,952 after losing 1.2 percent on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Tesco shares fell 2.7 percent on going ex-dividend, GlaxoSmithKline fell over 1 percent and Unilever dropped half a percent. <\/p>\n<p>Rail operator Trainline slumped as much as 24 percent after the government said it would digitize train-ticketing as part of an overhaul of its rail service.<\/p>\n<p>Telecommunications company BT Group fell 1.4 percent after a brokerage downgrade.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Mail tumbled 3.3 percent. The postal services company held back from providing a forecast for the current year, citing a number of uncertainties.<\/p>\n<p>Budget airline EasyJet dropped 2.6 percent after reporting a wider half-year loss. <\/p>\n<p>National Grid gained about 1 percent. The utility reported that its fiscal 2021 profit before tax climbed 19 percent to 2.08 billion pounds from last year&#8217;s 1.75 billion pounds. <\/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 Little Changed In Cautious Trade<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2021-05-20 09:26:15<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.K. markets were little changed on Thursday as shares of a number of companies traded ex-dividend. The benchmark FTSE 100 was up 2 points at 6,952 after losing 1.2 percent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9948,"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-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-euro-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","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=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/9948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}