UK Stocks-Factors to watch on August 28 (updated)
28/08/2025 07:38
Adds company news, updates futures Aug 28 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening higher on Thursday, with futures FFIc1 up 0.1%. * BARCLAYS: Barclays BARC.L said on Thursday that it has sold its stake in joint venture Entercard Group to partner Swedbank AB SWEDa.ST at book value, estimated at 2.6 billion crowns ($273.2 million) as of March 31. * NEXT 15: Next 15 NFGN.L said it will permanently cease operations at its U.S.-based venture-building firm Mach49, which has been under scrutiny for "serious misconduct". * DRAX GROUP: Drax Group DRX.L said Britain's financial watchdog is probing its biomass sourcing statements and the compliance of its 2021–2023 annual reports with financial discloure rules, covering the period from January 2022 to March 2024. * GSK: Britain's medicines regulator said on Thursday it approved GSK's GSK.L Blujepa, an antibiotic pill, to treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) in females aged 12 and older. * BP: BP's BP.L 440,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Whiting, Indiana, is back to operating at normal rates after taking multiple units offline due to a severe thunderstorm last week, industry monitor IIR said. * ELI LILLY: Eli Lilly LLY.N has temporarily paused shipments of its weight-loss drug Mounjaro in the UK, ahead of a new price hike for the treatment set to come into effect starting next month. * COMMODITIES: Oil prices fell, and gold prices inched lower on Thursday. * EX-DIVS: Auto Trader Group AUTOA.L, Games Workshop Group GAW.L, Alliance Witan ALWA.L, LondonMetric Property LMPL.L, and Croda International CRDA.L will trade without entitlement to its latest dividend pay-out on Thursday. * For more on the factors affecting European stocks, please click on: LIVE/ TODAY'S UK PAPERS > Financial Times PRESS/FT > Other business headlines PRESS/GB (Compiled by Tuhina and Nithyashree R B in Bengaluru) ((NithyashreeRB@thomsonreuters.com;))