{"id":1168134,"date":"2026-08-25T07:31:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1168134\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T07:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T07:31:23","slug":"ftse-100-live-gains-spread-across-london-as-blue-chips-add-0-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1168134\/","title":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Live: Gains spread across London as blue-chips add 0.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/1B7E27A3757758F04750753831EF3FB20C1E0077579ED1AEEDCF41113C3D1877\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fproactive_uk_164%2F7cb1366145596fafecf493f8590d2a8e.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==\" alt=\"FTSE 100 Live: Gains spread across London as blue-chips add 0.2%\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-1f8hkhu loader\"\/><\/a> FTSE 100 Live: Gains spread across London as blue-chips add 0.2% Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock       <\/p>\n<ul class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">FTSE 100 rises 0.2% to 10,876  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">FTSE 250 and SmallCap indices add 0.1%  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">FTSE All-Share advances 0.2%  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">AIM All-Share edges 0.1% higher  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Melrose leads blue-chip risers with 9% gain  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"yf-1jsc1up\">\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">JD Sports and Smith &amp; Nephew head fallers  <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        8.15 am: London indices advance across the board          <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">London opened broadly higher, with gains extending beyond the largest companies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The FTSE 100 added 0.2% to 10,876, while the FTSE 250 rose 0.1% to 24,746. The FTSE 350 and FTSE All-Share gained 0.2% to 5,927 and 5,862 respectively.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Smaller companies also participated. The FTSE SmallCap increased 0.1% to 8,204, while the AIM All-Share edged 0.1% higher to 814.75.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The sector picture was mixed. IAG gained 0.7% as oil prices eased, while Shell fell 0.4%. Antofagasta and Rio Tinto slipped 0.5% and 0.2%, while Anglo American edged higher.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Melrose Industries led the FTSE 100 risers, jumping around 9%. Its GKN Aerospace subsidiary plans to resume full manufacturing at its Garden Grove facility on 28 September, while US authorities have closed a criminal investigation without bringing charges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The company also announced a claims programme worth up to US$100 million for residents and businesses affected by May&#8217;s evacuation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Other leading risers included Weir Group, up 1.5%, Rolls-Royce and Next, both around 1.3% higher, and Persimmon, up 1.3%.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">JD Sports was the leading faller, losing around 1.2%. Smith &amp; Nephew and GSK dropped about 0.9%, while British American Tobacco, 3i Group and Endeavour Mining also declined.  <\/p>\n<p>        7.15 am: FTSE futures point to positive London opening          <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">September FTSE 100 futures gained 15 points, or 0.14%, to 10,898.5, pointing to a modestly higher start for London.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The contract traded between 10,878.5 and 10,899.5, compared with Monday&#8217;s settlement of 10,883.5. The cash FTSE 100 closed Monday 37.76 points higher at 10,854.32.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Bitcoin provided the strongest overnight move, climbing 4.7% to around US$80,700 after reaching US$81,104 &#8211; its highest level since May. It has gained approximately 25% over the past week.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Gold eased 0.3% to around $4,640 an ounce but remained on course for its strongest monthly advance since September 1999, having gained approximately 14% during August. Copper slipped 0.2% to $6.59 per pound.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Australia outperformed, with the ASX 200 rising 0.7% to 9,163. WiseTech Global gained 4.1% to A$45.28 and BHP added 0.6% to A$67.51. Woodside Energy fell 0.9% to A$33.17.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Elsewhere, Japan&#8217;s Nikkei 225 advanced 0.4% to around 65,800, South Korea&#8217;s Kospi gained 0.5% to approximately 6,730 and the Shanghai Composite added 0.2% to 3,890. Hong Kong&#8217;s Hang Seng slipped 0.2% to around 25,468.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Wall Street finished mixed. The S&amp;P 500 fell 0.28% and the Nasdaq Composite declined 0.76%, while the Dow Jones gained 0.26%. Nvidia dropped 2.91% ahead of its quarterly results on Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Brent crude held near US$92.10 a barrel, down 0.1%, following the latest US sanctions against Iran.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FTSE 100 Live: Gains spread across London as blue-chips add 0.2% Proactive uses images sourced from Shutterstock FTSE&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1168135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,1880,53676,180895,317022,317021,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":["post-1168134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-ftse-100","tag-ftse-250","tag-ftse-all-share","tag-ftse-futures","tag-ftse-smallcap","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117154984358494203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168134","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=1168134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}