The FTSE 100 Index Closes 0.30% Higher

The FTSE 100 Index rose 30 points or 0.30 percent on Wednesday to close at 10258 points. Leading the gains are Frasers Group (3.91%), Entain (3.19%) and Land Securities (3.10%). Top losers were Endeavour (-4.02%), Vistry Group (-3.21%) and Mondi (-2.33%).

London’s FTSE 100 reversed early losses to close around 0.3% higher at 10,255 on Wednesday, recovering from the previous session’s decline and outperforming major European peers. The main support came from Tritax Big Box REIT, which jumped 4.9% after confirming it had secured a successful appeal for its £360m Heathrow data centre project, boosting sentiment across property-linked stocks. Broader gains were supported by Entain, insurer Admiral Group and grocer Tesco. Among heavyweights, Shell and BP provided key uplift, alongside defensives British American Tobacco, Unilever, GSK and Compass Group, all rising between 1%-2%. On the downside, miners such as Endeavour Mining (-4.1%), Fresnillo (-1.7%) and Glencore (-0.9%) weakened. UK lenders faced pressure too, with HSBC down 1.3% and Standard Chartered falling 1.1%, following a JP Morgan note on the impact of new Chinese regulations.

GB100 decreased to 10143.00 Index Points, the lowest since March 2026. Over the past 4 weeks, United Kingdom Stock Market Index (GB100) lost 0.83%, and in the last 12 months, it increased 14.89%.