UK Stocks-Factors to watch on September 8 (updated)
UPDATE 1-UK Stocks-Factors to watch on September 8 Adds new items, updates futures
Sept 8 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening lower on Tuesday, with futures FFIc1 down 0.4%.
* DUNELM: Dunelm DNLM.L launched a new three-year growth plan and warned that unusually hot weather had knocked trading at the start of its new financial year.
* COMPUTACENTER: Computacenter CCC.L expects annual profit to come in ahead of market expectations, betting on a robust order intake driven by strong demand from data center customers for AI-related infrastructure in North America.
* VODAFONE: Deutsche Telekom DTEGn.DE, Orange ORAN.PA, Vodafone Group VOD.L, and Telefonica TEF.MC are in early talks to create a consortium to bid on European Union satellite spectrum and offer direct-to-mobile services, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
* TRADE: Britain will announce a trade ban on goods made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, confirmed a senior minister.
* RETAIL: British retail sales growth slowed to a four-month low in August as a surge driven by record-hot weather earlier in the summer faded, figures from the British Retail Consortium trade body showed.
* EMPLOYMENT: British retailers said they would seek to create 100,000 jobs for young people not in employment or education by the time of next national election due in 2029.
* OIL: Oil prices extended gains to multi-week highs as risks of a prolonged conflict in the Middle East grew after Iran threatened to retaliate against any new U.S. attacks on its assets.
* GOLD: Gold climbed as the U.S. dollar slipped, with investors focused on upcoming inflation data.
* COPPER: Copper hit a record high as the market continued to focus on flows of the metal into the United States amid tightened supply elsewhere.
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(Compiled by Neeshita Beura in Bengaluru)