UK Stocks-UK Factors to watch on June 23

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23/06/2025 06:22

June 23 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening lower on Monday, with futures FFIc1 down 0.4%.

* BP: BP BP.L is considering Sam Laidlaw, the former chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica CNA.L, as a leading candidate to succeed Helge Lund as chairman, Sky News reported on Saturday.

* THAMES WATER: Britain's Thames Water may be required to restate its financial accounts for the year ended March 2024, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

* METRO BANK: Colombian billionaire Jaime Gilinski Bacal is open to selling his majority stake in British lender Metro Bank MTRO.L and has received interest from investors, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

* ROLLS-ROYCE: British officials are lobbying South Korea to switch to Rolls-Royce RR.L from U.S. rival GE Aerospace as the primary engine partner for its fighter jet programme, the Financial Times reported on Monday.

* ENQUEST: UK explorer EnQuest ENQ.L expects to complete the acquisition of Harbour Energy's HBR.L business in Vietnam in the next month or two and plans to drill new wells to increase oil production there, CEO Amjad Bseisu said.

* INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY: Britain will aim to cut the electricity bills of thousands of companies under a new industrial strategy to be published on Monday.

* COMMODITIES: Oil prices jumped to their highest since January, gold prices edged lower, aluminium prices outperformed copper with the most-traded contracts on the London and Shanghai exchanges surging on Monday.

* FTSE: Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSEsnapped a five-week winning streak on Friday.

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 (Compiled by Nithyashree R B in Bengaluru)

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