UK Stocks-Factors to watch on April 23

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23/04/2026 06:20

April 23 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening lower on Thursday, with futures FFIc1 down 0.51%.

* BP: UK pension investor Nest plans to oppose re-election of BP BP.L Chair Albert Manifold at the company's annual meeting on Thursday, it said on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a lockout at BP's refinery in Whiting, Indiana, enters its second month as contract talks between the British oil major and hundreds of union workers remain deadlocked.

* INTERTEK: Matt Peltz, the son of activist investor Nelson Peltz, has built a stake in British product testing firm Intertek ITRK.L, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.

* STANDARD LIFE: A consortium led by CVC Capital Partners CVC.AS and Prudential Financial PRU.N has emerged as a frontrunner to acquire a stake worth over 1 billion pounds ($1.35 billion) in Standard Life's SDLF.L pension risk transfer (PRT) business, the Financial Times said.

* CREDIT LENDING: Paresh Raja, the founder of collapsed mortgage firm Market Financial Solutions, is facing a 1.3 billion pounds ($1.8 billion) lawsuit in Britain from creditors alleging he breached his fiduciary duties, Bloomberg News reported.

* AI: Bank of England and other financial services representatives on Wednesday said the sector was prepared for developments around Anthropic's Mythos artificial intelligence model and other emerging frontier AI models.

* EX-DIVS: Rolls-Royce Holdings RR.L, BAE Systems BAES.L, Fresnillo FRES.L, and Legal & General Group LGEN.L will trade without entitlement to their latest dividend payout on Thursday.

* COMMODITIES: Oil prices extended their gains on Thursday, while gold fell, and copper slid.

* FTSE: London's FTSE 100 closed slightly lower on Wednesday, with industrials and heavyweight financials weighing, while investors monitored the fragile Middle East truce and assessed domestic inflation data.

* UK CORPORATE DIARY:

LSEG
LSEG.L
Q1 trading update
Segro
SGRO.L
Trading update
Sainsbury's
SBRY.L
Prelim FY results
ASOS
ASOS.L
HY results
Hikma
HIK.L
Trading update
WH Smith
SMWH.L
HY results
RELX
REL.L
FY trading update
BP
BP.L
AGM
Man Group
EMG.L
Q1 trading update
Foxtons
FOXT.L
Q1 trading update
AJ Bell
AJBA.L
Q2 trading update

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 (Compiled by Roshni Srivastava in Bengaluru)

 ((roshni.srivastava@thomsonreuters.com))