UK Stocks-Factors to watch on September 10
10/09/2025 06:17
Sept 10 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening higher on Wednesday, with futuresFFIc1 up 0.15%. * BURFORD CAPITAL: Burford Capital BURF.L said on Tuesday that it has made a minority investment in London-based legal industry advisory firm Kindleworth, as the litigation funding giant pushes to invest directly in more law firms. * UNILEVER: Ben & Jerry's co-founder Ben Cohen said on Tuesday that the ice cream brand had, amid tension with it parent Unilever ULVR.L, tried to engineer a sale to investors at a fair market value between $1.5-$2.5 billion, which had been knocked back. * BAE SYSTEMS: Britain's BAE Systems BAES.L said it was aiming to bring an autonomous submarine to market by 2026, amid interest from countries increasingly worried about underwater threats, following a series of attacks on subsea cables. * SHELL: Turkish state energy company BOTAS and ShellSHEL.L have signed a three-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) purchase agreement, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Tuesday. * COMMODITIES: Oil prices rose on Wednesday, gold prices edged higher holding above the critical $3,600-per-ounce level, and copper prices in London inched higher buoyed by a landmark planned merger between Anglo American and Teck Resources. * FTSE: The UK blue-chip index .FTSE closed up 0.2% on Tuesday, boosted by energy and industrial mining stocks, as Anglo American jumped on a merger deal. * UK CORPORATE DIARY:
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