FTSE 100 news tone · Thursday 29 October 2026
FTSE 100 news overview: Thursday 29 October 2026
News from the 24 hours to Thursday morning, 29 October 2026. Every relevant headline about all 100 companies, read and scored for how good or bad it is for the company.
Market mood · 29 October
Average tone across the 77 companies with news
What the score means. Each score rates how good or bad the news was for the company, from −10 (clearly bad) to +10 (clearly good). 0 is neutral, and anything beyond ±6 is strong and rare. It rates the coverage, not the share price.
Mood over time
Average tone per day, 30 Sep to 29 Oct
Across every FTSE 100 company with relevant news that day, −10 to +10.
Average tone fell 0.2 points from 3.1 to 2.9 between 30 Sep and 29 Oct. Its high was 4.2 in 7 Oct.
Source: MarketFrame news analysis
| day | Average tone |
|---|---|
| 30 Sep | 3.1 |
| 1 Oct | 3.6 |
| 2 Oct | 2.1 |
| 3 Oct | 3.0 |
| 4 Oct | 1.8 |
| 5 Oct | 3.8 |
| 6 Oct | 3.4 |
| 7 Oct | 4.2 |
| 8 Oct | 3.3 |
| 9 Oct | 2.4 |
| 10 Oct | 2.8 |
| 11 Oct | 2.4 |
| 12 Oct | 3.3 |
| 13 Oct | 3.6 |
| 14 Oct | 2.8 |
| 15 Oct | 3.3 |
| 16 Oct | 2.8 |
| 17 Oct | 3.6 |
| 18 Oct | 2.1 |
| 19 Oct | 2.4 |
| 20 Oct | 1.6 |
| 21 Oct | 2.6 |
| 22 Oct | 4.1 |
| 23 Oct | 3.0 |
| 24 Oct | 3.0 |
| 25 Oct | 2.7 |
| 26 Oct | 1.7 |
| 27 Oct | 3.2 |
| 28 Oct | 2.1 |
| 29 Oct | 2.9 |
Weekly note · 20 October – 26 October
FTSE 100 news tone: pharma and property led, utilities and banks lagged
Coverage of the FTSE 100 stayed positive all week, and two drugmakers and two property firms led it. Severn Trent, 3i and Imperial Brands had the weakest reads.
Written by ScriptGrain from the week's stored scores, fact-checked.
Top stories · 29 October · by headlines
GSK reports third-quarter results, keeps 2026 outlook; shares fall on vaccinesnegative · GSK · 69 headlines
Previews look ahead to GSK's third-quarter results and analyst expectations.
Unilever reports third-quarter turnover growth and raises 2026 outlookpositive · ULVR · 35 headlines
Headlines report Unilever's third-quarter turnover and a higher full-year outlook, with emerging markets and beauty strong, North America and food weaker, plus call and slides coverage.
Standard Chartered revises 2026 income goal upward after Q3 profit tops forecastsstrongly positive · STAN · 34 headlines
Standard Chartered reported a Q3 profit beat, lifted 2026 guidance, and shares jumped.
BAE Systems signs combat air cooperation MoU with Bombardierstrongly positive · BA · 16 headlines
Bombardier and BAE Systems signed a memorandum of understanding to explore cooperation on future combat air programmes, with a possible Canadian role in GCAP.
Unilever to increase prices, citing higher costs linked to Iran warslightly negative · ULVR · 15 headlines
Headlines report Unilever raising prices, with larger increases flagged for the fourth quarter and 2027 because of higher energy and commodity costs linked to the Iran conflict.
Rio Tinto puts forward a 56% increase in its chief executive's target payslightly negative · RIO · 14 headlines
Outlets report that Rio Tinto wants to raise the target pay of chief executive Simon Trott by 56%.
All 100 companies · 29 October
Every company and sectorSectors · 29 October · average tone
Oil and gas had the best coverage and Utilities the worst
Average tone of each sector's companies with news, −10 to +10.
Oil and gas is the largest at 6.3, ahead of insurance (6.0). Utilities is the lowest at −2.5. 2 of the 17 are below zero.
Source: MarketFrame news analysis
| sector | Average tone |
|---|---|
| Oil and gas | 6.3 |
| Insurance | 6.0 |
| Banks | 5.4 |
| Aerospace and defence | 4.4 |
| Travel and leisure | 3.7 |
| Industrials and support services | 3.6 |
| Media and technology | 3.4 |
| Retail | 3.3 |
| Mining | 3.3 |
| Telecoms | 2.6 |
| Consumer staples | 2.4 |
| Investment trusts | 1.8 |
| Real estate | 1.3 |
| Pharma and healthcare | 1.2 |
| Financial services | 1.2 |
| Housebuilders | −1.1 |
| Utilities | −2.5 |
Biggest stories · the week to 29 October
| Story | Tone | Headlines |
|---|---|---|
| HSBC reports 32% third-quarter profit rise; shares fall on revenue missHSBC · HSBA · 29 October | −0.8neutral | 105 |
| GSK reports third-quarter results, keeps 2026 outlook; shares fall on vaccinesGSK · GSK · 29 October | −3.0slightly negative | 77 |
| Aviva Investors puts £22bn sterling liquidity fund's tokenised class on XRP LedgerAviva · AV · 29 October | +6.1strongly positive | 69 |
| Barclays links 5,000 planned job losses to AIBarclays · BARC · 29 October | −0.9neutral | 68 |
| easyJet signs up Starlink for aircraft Wi-Fi, with installation starting in 2027EasyJet · EZJ · 29 October | +8.0strongly positive | 67 |
| Rio Tinto allocates $1.9bn for work on its Kangwinan bauxite projectRio Tinto · RIO · 28 October | +7.9strongly positive | 55 |
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