{"id":1143905,"date":"2026-08-12T06:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1143905\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T06:45:17","slug":"ftse-100-live-uk-blue-chips-set-for-softer-open-as-traders-brace-for-us-inflation-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1143905\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Live: UK blue-chips set for softer open as traders brace for US inflation test"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FTSE<\/a> FTSE 100 Live: UK blue-chips set for softer open as traders brace for US inflation test Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock Ahead of the open: Soft start predicted <\/p>\n

Futures point to the FTSE 100 opening around 30 points lower, with nobody keen to take a big position before this afternoon’s US inflation print. <\/p>\n

The consumer price index (CPI) reading comes after the regular monthly\u00a0report last week\u00a0showed the world’s largest economy shed more than 20,000 jobs in July. <\/p>\n

Inflation has bubbled above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target for more than five years, and the Iran war has done very little to help since February. <\/p>\n

Three policymakers voted for a hike to borrowing costs in July, and markets now expect at least one before the year is out. <\/p>\n

Oil is the complicating factor, with both main crude contracts up again on Wednesday and roughly 14% higher over the past week as the Strait of Hormuz stays shut. <\/p>\n

Asia was a mixed bag, though Seoul stood out with a 4.2% jump as Samsung Electronics (KRX:005930, LSE:BC94)<\/a> and SK Hynix did the heavy lifting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Live: UK blue-chips set for softer open as traders brace for US inflation test Proactive uses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1143906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,42282,393,7372,61082,4884,1144,712,24672,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1143905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-consumer-price-index","tag-england","tag-federal-reserve","tag-ftse","tag-great-britain","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-shutterstock","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117081192843877040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1143906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}